Tinubu Orders Investigation Into Niger Boat Mishaps, Mourns Victims.

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President Bola Tinubu on Thursday ordered an investigation into the recent cases of boat accidents in Niger State.

The North Central state has been hit with a series of boat mishaps in the past one year with the latest happening on Tuesday night whereby no fewer than 60 people, mostly women and children, were killed.

The locally made wooden boat, with a capacity of 100 passengers, had about 300 people on board when it overturned in the rural Mokwa district, an emergency official said on Wednesday

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