{"id":177844,"date":"2025-09-07T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ngf-mourns-victims-of-niger-boat"},"modified":"2025-09-07T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:31:00","slug":"ngf-mourns-victims-of-niger-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ngf-mourns-victims-of-niger-boat","title":{"rendered":"NGF mourns victims of Niger boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Governors\u2019 Forum, NGF, has expressed sadness over the reports of a boat mishap in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State, with some 60 persons reported dead.<\/p>\n<p>The forum, in a statement issued on Saturday by the chairman, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, expressed its deepest condolences to the people and government of Niger State, and commended the rescue operations immediately mounted by the administration of Governor Umar Bago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost relatives to the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish those who survived but are in critical conditions safe recovery,\u201d the Forum said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we again mourn the victims of this accident, we restate our concern at the rising incidents of boat mishaps whose causes include overcrowding, old boats, or night travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese incidents are avoidable if everyone plays by the rule and respects the sanctity of the human life,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The forum similarly called for strict adherence to the use of life jackets during water travel, especially that Federal and State Governments have repeatedly donated life jackets to save lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigeria Governors\u2019 Forum, NGF, has expressed sadness over the reports of a boat mishap in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State, with some 60 persons reported dead. The forum, in a statement issued on Saturday by the chairman, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, expressed its deepest condolences to the people and government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-177844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NGF mourns victims of Niger boat - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ngf-mourns-victims-of-niger-boat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NGF mourns victims of Niger boat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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