A petrol tanker carrying 33,000 litres of petrol exploded in Ibadan on Thursday, July 18, evening, triggering panic and fire damage in the Oyo state capitalThe incident occurred around 6:27 p.m. at ...

A tanker explosion has occurred in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital involving a tanker and a private car. The explosion reportedly took place on Thursday July 17th, around 6:30pm at Celica junction, just ...

The former Corp Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, has called on the Federal Government to implement a 6pm ban on trucks and tanker movement in a bid to avert ...

Twelve people were killed and 16 others badly injured when a fuel tanker exploded in northern Nigerian city of Gombe, police told AFP on Sunday.

18 people were killed in a truck accident in south-eastern Nigeria, authorities said a week after a petrol tanker explosion left at least 98 dead.

The tanker, he said, was originally designed as a 14,959kg (approximately 15 ton) drilling rig with low bed in 1999 before it was converted in Nigeria to a fuel tank carrier to carry 30 tonnes.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged States and relevant authorities to step up enforcement of road safety regulations, particularly regarding truck standards and driver behavior.

LAGOS, Nigeria — A truck carrying fuel veered off the road into a ditch, caught fire and exploded in Nigeria's oil-rich delta on Thursday, killing at least 95 people who had rushed to the scene ...