Nigeria, Nov. 10 -- A 300-level student of Peace and Conflict at Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti, needs N400,000 for an emergency surgical operation, her mother says.

Ayomide Oni was her way to school when the bus she was travelling in was involved in an accident involving four vehicles, including a tanker hauling petrol, along Ife-Ibadan road.

The Punch Newspaper reports that 12 people sustained varying degrees of burns on Thursday in Ikire, Osun State.

According to a witness, two trucks loaded with cement, another ferrying petroleum, and a commercial bus were involved in the crash.

The accident which occurred around 3:30 a.m. few kilometres to Naira and Kobo Junction in Ikire led to a diversion of traffic to one lane of the dual...