Nigeria’s National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) reports that eight people were killed after a passenger boat capsized in the south-eastern state of Anambra on Sunday, January 7. The unnamed wooden-hulled vessel was carrying over 50 passengers and was transiting the Niger River between Kogi...
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