{"id":51748,"date":"2025-08-18T05:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/at-least-40-missing-after-boat-capsizes-in-northwestern-nigeria\/18\/08\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:20:22","slug":"at-least-40-missing-after-boat-capsizes-in-northwestern-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/at-least-40-missing-after-boat-capsizes-in-northwestern-nigeria\/18\/08\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 40 missing after boat capsizes in northwestern Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) \u2014 At least 40 people are missing after a boat capsized Sunday on a river in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The accident happened around the Goronyo area in Sokoto state while the boat was transporting passengers to a market, Nigeria\u2019s National Emergency Management Agency said in a statement late Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The emergency agency said only 10 people have been rescued as teams continue search and rescue efforts in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The accident is the latest in a series of deadly boat mishaps on Nigerian waterways. Such accidents are common in remote communities during the rainy season, often caused by overloaded and poorly maintained vessels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last month, a boat transporting passengers to a market in north-central Nigeria capsized, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nigeria-boat-capsizes-waterway-2c1385e5c217f47bbf03dc927f10e7ed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:killing at least 25 people;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">killing at least 25 people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least 326 people died in boat accidents in Nigeria in 2024, according to a count by TheCable, a local media outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Analysts say many boats operate without life jackets, blaming weak enforcement by regulatory authorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/least-40-missing-boat-capsizes-082625761.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) &mdash; At least 40 people are missing after a boat capsized Sunday on a river in northwestern Nigeria, authorities<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/at-least-40-missing-after-boat-capsizes-in-northwestern-nigeria\/18\/08\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/cv\/apiv2\/social\/images\/yahoo_default_logo-1200x1200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}