{"id":43340,"date":"2026-08-20T18:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43340"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:30:52","slug":"overloaded-boat-capsizes-in-nigeria-around-40-childrens-bodies-recovered","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/overloaded-boat-capsizes-in-nigeria-around-40-childrens-bodies-recovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Overloaded boat capsizes in Nigeria, around 40 children&#8217;s bodies recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An overloaded boat capsized in Nigeria&#8217;s northwest \u200cSokoto state, with around 40 bodies of children recovered so far, a local official at the inland waterways authority said this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that so far around 40 \u2060corpses of children have been recovered,&#8221; Abdulkadir Yusuf, an Area Manager of the National Inland Waterways Authority said in a statement to <em>Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred this Thursday morning when passengers were heading either to plant or to harvest rice, said Sarkin \u200cDaji, \u2060a traditional leader in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our local divers recovered the bodies and the search is still ongoing,&#8221; local resident Nasiru Gorau said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deadly boat \u2060accidents are common in Nigeria, where vessels often operate unsafely. In January, at least 25 people \u2060died when a leaking boat capsized in Yobe state, northeast Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22145,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-43340","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"An overloaded boat capsized in Nigeria's northwest \u200cSokoto stat","published_date":"2026-08-20 18:29:26","news_description":"An overloaded boat capsized in Nigeria's northwest \u200cSokoto stat","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43341,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43340\/revisions\/43341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}