May 23, 2026
Military and security sources said that the tragic incident happened on May 21 near the Julius Berger gate in Jaji, Kaduna State.
A senior officer of the Nigerian Army, Major S. Sayyadi of the Headquarters Infantry Corps Command (ICC), has lost his life in a fatal road accident along the Kaduna–Zaria Expressway near Jaji Military Cantonment.
Military and security sources said that the tragic incident happened on May 21 near the Julius Berger gate in Jaji, Kaduna State.
According to the sources, the officer was driving along the expressway when his vehicle reportedly rammed into a Sino truck attempting to enter the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) railway construction site located around the New Barracks axis of the cantonment.
