Nigeria, July 8 -- A Nigerian senator, hoodwinked by a fake photo of a road accident, vowed to ensure the "speedy completion" of a dilapidated federal highway on which the peddlers of the fake photo claimed the accident occurred.

The photo, shared on Facebook on Friday, depicts an accident scene where a container fell on a passenger bus.

Facebook users who shared the photo said the accident happened along Calabar-Itu Highway, a dilapidated road meant to connect the two southern states of Akwa Ibom and Cross River. They claimed that the accident killed 17 people.

The Calabar-Itu Highway has remained dilapidated for decades and sometimes almost impassable despite successive administrations' promises to fix it.

The senator, Asuquo Ekpeny...