2025 Suleja fuel tanker explosion - Wikipedia
On 18 January 2025, a fuel tanker carrying roughly 60,000 liters of petrol overturned at the Dikko junction near Suleja, Niger State, northern Nigeria, where after crashing local residents gathered to collect spilled fuel. The fuel promptly caused an explosion which killed 98 people and injured another 69, including at least 52 critically. [1]
The Niger, Enugu tanker fires - Tribune Online
2 days ago · FOLLOWING the Saturday, December 18 tanker explosion that rocked Niger State, there was a harvest of deaths and grievous injuries.
Niger tanker explosion death toll rises to 98, 69 injured – NSEMA
Jan 20, 2025 · The Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) has confirmed that 98 people lost their lives in the tanker explosion that occurred over the weekend at Dikko Junction, Gurara Local...
Niger Tanker Explosion: Death Toll Hits 98, 69 Injured, 20 Shops ...
Jan 20, 2025 · The Director General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), Abdullahi Baba-Arah, has provided an update on the tragic tanker explosion that occurred in Diko, Niger State.
Niger explosion: Tinubu, Buhari, others mourn as death toll hits 86
Jan 20, 2025 · The death toll in the petrol tanker explosion at Dikko Junction near Suleja in Niger State has risen to 86, with 55 persons injured and receiving treatment at the hospital. By Saturday when the ...
Niger tanker explosion: Senators, Obi, others rage as death toll …
Jan 21, 2025 · SENATORS of the 19 Northern states, Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, and others, yesterday, raged as the death toll of Saturday’s petrol tanker accident at Dikko ...
‘Heartbreaking’: 86 killed in Nigeria tanker explosion
Jan 18, 2025 · A fuel tanker explosion in Niger State in northern Nigeria has killed 86 people and injured dozens, the country’s national emergency agency said.
Nigeria tanker: More than 50 killed in Niger state collision - BBC
Sep 9, 2024 · Fifty-nine people have been confirmed dead in central Nigeria's Niger state, after a fuel tanker collided with a lorry carrying passengers and cattle, the state emergency agency said.
UPDATED: Over 50 die in Niger petrol tanker explosion, says FRSC
Jan 18, 2025 · No fewer than 50 persons lost their lives in a petrol tanker explosion on Saturday along Dikko-Maje Road in the Suleja Local Government Area of Niger State.
Petrol tanker explosion claims 50 lives in Niger
Jan 18, 2025 · Over 50 persons lost their lives in a petrol tanker explosion along Dikko-Maje road, opposite Badeggi fuelling station, in Suleja LGA of Niger State, on Saturday. Mr Kumar Tsukwam, Federal...