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Sorrow, tears and blood filled the air at Mobalufun junction in Odogbolu Local Government Area of Ogun State when a truck loaded with flour rammed into a commuter bus heading to Lagos kill all the passengers on the spot. About thirty (30) persons were feared dead in the auto crash. The incident happened on Tuesday 11 th September 2012. According to a report in the Vanguard, traders and some commuters standing by the road side, all were victims of the auto crash. Some of these commuters sustained serious injuries from the crash. The injured according to a source are receiving treatment at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Sagamu and General Hospital Ijebu-Ode. As at 0800hrs on the fateful day, officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps, the Police and the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) were seen on the scene of the accident evacuating dead bodies.

Bottom of Form This will be welcome with mixed feelings from Arsenal Football Club Fans as ARSENE Wenger will be offered a new contract with Arsenal despite the club’s seven-year trophy drought, following a hint yesterday by Gunners’ chief executive, Ivan Gazidis. Arsene Wenger Arsenal won their last trophy in the 2005 FA Cup. Most of their top players, including Robin van Persie, Cesc Fabregas and Cameroonian international Song, have left the club in frustration because of their failure to compete for major honours. Gazidis is adamant that the 62-year old Arsene Wenger, who is still under contract until 2014, remains the right man for the job regardless of the fact that they have not won the English premiership for eight years as he told The Daily Mirror. Wenger is regarded as The Gunners Best Manager ever.

I hope I will not be wrong if I say Japanese fashion designer Kazuhiro Watanabe, is carrying the Tower Of Babel on his head. He holds the world record for the "Tallest Mohawk,". Here, he poses for a photographer at a media event held by the Guinness World Records to launch their 2013 book edition in New York September 12, 2012. According to the Guinness Book Of World Records, Kazuhiro Watanabe's hair do is 3 feet 8.6 inches tall.

The popular Upper Iweka area of Onitsha Anambra state was in total confusion yesterday as a result of the murder of a lunatic woman by people suspected to be ritual killers and allegedly snatched her son of five years of age.  However there is a conflicting report on the actual cause of death. While the Police in Onitsha are saying that the lunatic was not killed by ritualist, other sources are saying that the suspected ritualist accosted her and forcefully took her son from her. She was killed by the suspected ritual killers because she resisted their move.  The death of the woman was confirmed by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Onitsha Central Police Station Mr. Abdul Yusuf who said that no part of the woman’s body is missing and that there has been no report of a missing boy by anybody or family member of the woman. Her body has been deposited at the Onitsha General Hospital Morgue by the Police as reported in the Vanguard. The police are now inves...

River Benue got angry and took over Makurdi, sending the residents packing as it swept away several houses yesterday. This has rendered many people homeless, damaging properties worth billions of naira. The surge according to witnesses started building up Sunday night and has swept away thousands of residential houses, business places and farmlands creating emergency refugees. Worst hit by the natural disaster are houses around the river bank. The affected communities include Benue State University, Benue University Teaching Hospital, Headquarters of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Makurdi, Kucha Otebe, Gyado Villa, Judges quarters area where the senator George Akume the Senate Minority Leader and Dr. Samuel Ortom the Minister of State, Trade and Investment have their residential houses and many more.