Tragedy

Scores injured as truck crashes into electric pole in Abia
– A ghastly accident has occurred in Abia state leaving some people injured
 – This accident caused an explosion making people flee for their lives
 – The tragedy occurred after the heavy duty truck which was heading to Akwa Ibom state Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Whatsapp Truck hits pole in Abia state About 15 persons have been injured as truck crashed into electric poles on Monday, Octobr 4 in Abia state. The tragedy occurred after the heavy duty truck which was heading to Akwa Ibom state, crashed into three poles, leaving two tricycle riders and their passengers severely injured. According to The Nation, the truck violently crashed into the electric pole causing an explosion and fire outbreak around the area.
On seeing the explosion, people fled from their homes, shops and cars while some tried to rescue some injured persons. Daily Post reports that some eyewitnesses said the fire, which started as a result of the explosion, fell poles and saw people run in different directions. The eyewitnesses also disclosed that the truck drivers and their conductors on several occasions, used wooden planks to raise the power cables before they pass through the junction. The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Nta Ogbonnaya Nta, , who also confirmed the incident, said the matter is being handled by the Ogbor Hill Police Division while the injured persons have been taken to the hospital. However, this is not the first time this incident has occurred in the state as barely four months ago, a ghastly motor accident occurred in Abia state leaving six people dead.
The reason for the accident was not ascertained but it appeared a collision between a bus and a truck resulted in the accident. Witnesses at the scene helped the injured individuals that were still alive.

Human Creation

ORIGINS OF MANKIND

Human and apes have so many similarities -

such as long arms and finger and big brain -

that most experts think they must have

evolved from the same creature.

Our common ancestor may be four-legged

orang-utan-like creature called

dryopithecines that lived in tress from 22

to 10 million years ago, like "procusul"

from East Africa.

The break came when 'hominids' (human-

like apes) began to live on the ground and

walk on two legs.

Footprints of three bipedal (two-legged)

creatures from 4 million year ago were

found preserved in ash at Laetoli,

Tanzania.

The Oldest hominid is called Ardipithecus

ramidus, known from 4.4-million-years-old

bone fragments found in Aramis, Ethiopia.

Many very early hominids are australopits

('southern apes'); for example,

Australopithecus anamensis from 4.2 million

years ago.

Australopith were one meter tall and their

brain was about the same size as an ape's,

but they were bipedal.

The best known australopith is "Lucy",

a skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis of

3 million years ago, found in Kenya in 1974.

Lucy's discoverers- Don Johanson and

Maurice Tieb- called her Lucy because they

were listening to the The Beatles's song

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' at the time.

Many early hominid remains are just skulls.

Lucy was an almost complete skeleton. She

showed that hominids learned to walk

upright before their brains got bigger.