Around 191 people are feared to have died after an overloaded wooden boat capsized in Gbajibo, Niger State on the night of Nigeria’s Independence Day — 1 October. However, the deaths could have been prevented had the Nigerian government enforced safety measures in its inland waterways or heeded warnings in a report published by PREMIUM TIMES six months earlier.
Following global reports of the accident, the Senate observed a minute’s silence for the victims, a symbolic ritual…
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