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 major fire outbreak erupted at the Optima Filling Station in the Obawole area of Fagba, Lagos, on Wednesday evening, following an explosion involving a petroleum tanker.\xa0The incident, which ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...