Officials of the Federal and state fire services, the Pipelines Products Marketing Company, PPMC, and National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, yesterday, were yet to gain access to the site of the pipeline explosion at the Ije-Ododo community, Iba Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Lagos State, to extinguish the fire.

No fewer that 27 people were reported dead, while 18 others sustained various degrees of injuries following an accident involving an articulated vehicle.

OGONI in Rivers State have appealed to the Federal Government to come to the aid of victims of the recent flood disaster that submerged various communities in four local government areas in the state.

Irked by the growing spate of kidnapping, Imo State government has warned that any vehicle found adorning tinted windshields would be impounded.

Family of the late Navy Commander Murtala Daba, the pilot of the ill-fated Navy Chopper described the Naval officer as a man of uncommon courage whose death was a big blow to the family.