Tragedy struck on Sunday when 20 persons were burnt to death after a tanker exploded at Ore, Odigbo Local government area, Ondo State.
According to The Nation, the fire was started by a spark from a phone held by one of the persons scooping fuel that spilled from tanker.
Among the dead were three children and a pregnant.
Speaking on the incident, an eye witness who gave his name as Cyriacus said they were inside the church when the tanker fell and spilled its contents on the road. Read More...
YouGov asks the public how they many seats they would assign each of the parties in the Commons if they could chooseOver the years, many people have complained about the way Britain’s electoral system translates votes into seats in the House of Commons. In 1983, SDP-Liberal Alliance won just 23 out of 650 seats, despite taking more than a quarter of the national vote. Likewise, in 2015, nearly four million people cast their ballot for UKIP but the party only received a single seat. Read More...
Did You Know? The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice
September 28, 1889
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