At least six persons, mostly students returning to school, have been confirmed dead following a boat mishap at Buruku ...

The boat, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt, was conveying the victims across River Niger for a programme at a traditional wedding ceremony in a community in Niger. The boat, conveying about 22 ...

Boat accidents continue to happen across Nigeria’s inland waterways, often resulting in fatalities, injuries, and the loss of ...

The Lagos Area Office of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) warned boat operators on Sunday that it would henceforth, deregister and withdraw operational licences of indicted operators.

Eight more bodies have been recovered from last Tuesday’s boat accident at Ibaji, Kogi State. The recovery followed the ongoing search and rescue mounted by personnel of the Kogi State Emergency ...

NIWA has approved specific operating hours for boat operators nationwide, restricting movement on inland waterways to between 6:00am and 6:00pm daily.

Madang Provincial Police Commander Superintendent Robert Baim has raised serious concerns over the continued loss of life at sea, warning that repeated boat mishaps are stretching police capacity and ...

By Steve AgbotaAs part of efforts to curb the rising incidence of boat mishaps on Nigeria’s inland waterways, the Federal Government has approved about N14.6 billion to procure modern boats and ...

ABUJA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - At least 26 people drowned when a boat carrying traders capsized on the River Niger in Nigeria's north-central Kogi State, a regional state official said on Thursday, the ...

The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has renewed his call on state governments across the federation to urgently ban the use of wooden boats for commercial water transportation ...