Niger state boat capsize: Dozens die in Nigeria

A BBC official said:

According to a plus boat, it was said that he was carrying about 100 passengers, including women and children, turned when the tree trunk was struck immersed on the Niger River in the Burgo area on Wednesday morning.

Abdullah Baba Ara, a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the state, told BBC Hausa on Thursday that more than 50 other people were rescued, with eight are missing.

Search operations are continuing.

Mr. Ara said that the government has established a team of “water guards” to prevent boat operators from excess in their ships and ensure that passengers wear survival jackets.

“Perhaps the water guards were not when this boat set out,” he said, adding that the investigations began.

The local provincial chief told Reuters news agency that he was at the scene after the accident.

“I was at the scene of the accident yesterday at 12 pm until 4 pm. The boat carried more than 100 people. We managed to restore 31 awards from the river. The boat was also recovered,” Reuters quoted Souad Eu Mohamed as saying.

Boat accidents are somewhat common in Nigeria, often due to excessive pregnancy, poor organization, and insufficient safety precautions.

About 25 people lost Last month after a boat accident in the state of Sokoto.

In December last year, 54 bodies of the Niger River were recovered after a boat that might have carried more than 200 passengers.

The government has made it necessary for travelers to always wear water jackets, but this is not often applied.

In February, the Minister of Maritime and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, established a “special committee on banning boat accidents in Nigeria”, and in May the ministry announced that it will distribute 42,000 that will fall life across 12 river states in the country.

Later this month, the National Inland Water Ways (NIWA) started a campaign they called “No Survival Jacket, No Travel”, and “No Night of Traveling” in the cases of Niger and Cuar, where boat accidents occurred regularly in the recent past.

The Great Niger state in Nigeria is through the mass of the Earth and people tend to travel a lot through water because it is often faster and cheapest way to roam.