ABS football Team Bus Crashes On Oyo Highway, Players and crew Injured
An official of the team who confirmed the incident to the media said no life was lost but some players and officials were critically injured.
The team bus of a Nigerian football club, Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) Ilorin FC was involved in an accident on Monday morning along the Ogbomoso-Ilorin Expressway in Oyo State.
The team is owned by Abubakar Bukola Saraki, a former Senate President and former Governor of Kwara State.
The media learned that the team was returning to Ilorin, Kwara State from Lagos State after a league match against Sporting Lagos.
An official of the team who confirmed the incident to the media said no life was lost but some players and officials were critically injured.
“We thank God no life was lost. Those injured are currently receiving medical attention. We have taken them to nearby hospitals,” the team official said.
ABS is not the first football club in Nigeria that has had bad tales to tell while using highways in the country in the course of their trade.
In June 2024, the media reported how several players were injured when the team bus of Doma United was involved in an accident on along the Makurdi-Lafia Expressway in Benue.
It was gathered that the bus lost control and somersaulted several times along the expressway but no life was lost to the accident.
In 2020, it was also reported how Ifeanyi George, a player of another football club from the country, Enugu Rangers Football Club, was killed in a car accident.
The incident left two other players of the club critically injured.
