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The National Inland Waterways Authority has stressed that its ban on night travels for boats on Nigeria’s waterways remains.It noted

He also disclosed that the helmsman of the ill-fated vessel in which three medical students drowned in Calabar had been arrested, his vessel impounded, adding that he had also been charged.

“We have arrested him because he was supposed to have two engines in the boat, but he only had one. So, when the engine failed, he had no option but to remain on the water, waiting for the boat to capsize.

 

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