Five persons, four male students and a young lady, have died in a fatal accident involving the Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago’s convoy in Minna, the state capital.
The incident happened on Monday at Gidan Mangoro community along the Minna–Bida Road. It followed a head-on collision between a high-speeding Hilux van in the convoy of Bago and a private Peugeot 206 car.
The lady identified as Mrs. Nafisa was driving the car and died at the spot of the accident. She was said to be a staff of an NGO, a Programme Manager at Labspace, and the Founder of Wosh Mart Service Ltd.
A resident of Gidan Mangoro, Abdullahi Musa, told Vanguard that the accident occurred at about 11:35 AM when the governor was returning from Bida. He and his team paid a condolence visit to the Etsu Nupe and Chairman of the Niger State Council of Traditional Rulers, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, over the passage of the Sagi Nupe Hajia Aisha.
He said the occupants of the private car driven by Nafisa were suspected to be postgraduate students of the Federal University of Technology, Minna.
His words, “The people in the private car died instantly, while those in the government Hilux sustained serious injuries with the driver dying on the spot.”
