Aminu Abdullahi, a personnel of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Kebbi Area Command, has been killed by a suspected car smuggler in Yauri Local Government Area of the state.
This was confirmed by the spokesperson of the service, ASC Mubarak Mustapha in a statement he made available in Birnin Kebbi late Sunday.
Mustapha said, “The NSC, Kebbi Area Command, has commiserated with the family of one officer, Aminu Abdullahi, who was killed by a suspected car smuggler in the line of duty.
“The incident took place on July 13, at about 4:00 am, when a 2015 Toyota Corolla model with chassis no: 2TBURHE3FC456204 rammed into the victim along Tamac Road, Yauri Local Government Area of the state”.
According to the spokesperson, the officer was rushed to General Hospital, Yauri, for immediate medical attention, after receiving proper first aid.
He added, “He was later transferred to Wamakko Orthopaedic Hospital in Wamakko LGA of Sokoto State.
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“Unfortunately, he gave up the ghost this morning after responding to treatment during the night.”
In another development, seven children were rescued on Sunday after fire gutted a storey building occupied by an orphanage home on Wole Madariola Street in the Aguda area of Lagos State.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, in a statement on Monday, revealed that the inferno was caused by a power surge that emanated from an air conditioning unit in the building.
The Permanent Secretary Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu said the Agency received the distress call on the fire incident at about 2:43 pm.
The statement read in part, “A one-storey building housing an orphanage/motherless babies home, was engulfed by fire which reportedly started from an air conditioning unit in the house as a result of a power surge which was said to have quickly spread out.
“A total of seven boys with ages ranging between one and seven years were quickly evacuated from the Home and safely relocated to the compound opposite the Home.
“Management Team of the Home informed LRT of plans to relocate the children to the house of the owner of the Home temporarily, to ensure their welfare was sustained.
“The fire which had initially spread to the storage room of the home has been extinguished with dampening down concluded.”