Africa / Nigeria · Environment

Boat capsizes in Benue, Nigeria, several missing

Rank
Ran: 44h
Updated: 14h ago
Closed
Outlets: 6
Regions: 1
Countries: 2
Languages: 1

Daily Trust Nigeria · English 3 Oct, 14:49 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

The only language so far · English, 6 reports

Read at Daily Trust

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Daily Trust, 3 Oct, 14:49 UTC.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 3 Oct, 14:49 UTC.
Second region: International, with AllAfrica.
Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 2 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

83%17%

Africa 5 outlets · 1 country · 83%
International 1 outlet · 17%

First movers

Daily Trust 3 Oct, 14:49 UTC
Vanguard +20m
Nigerian Tribune +35m
The Sun (NG) +2h 17m
Punch +2h 21m

Last to join

AllAfrica 5 Oct, 05:32 UTC
Punch 3 Oct, 17:10 UTC
The Sun (NG) 3 Oct, 17:06 UTC
Nigerian Tribune 3 Oct, 15:24 UTC
Vanguard 3 Oct, 15:08 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 2 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Nigeria. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English.
Timeline: Earliest article Daily Trust, 3 Oct 2026, 14:49 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 15:40 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 12:26 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Africa, Nigeria. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.04, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Benue Boat Mishap: Families grieve as search for missing victims continues. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

3 Oct 2026 288 2.71 5 1 5 1 4.0

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Started 3 Oct, 15:40 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 12:26 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Africa 5 outlets

The Sun (NG) Nigeria 5 Oct, 12:26 UTC
SEMA confirms four deaths, 125 persons rescued, over nine still missing in Benue boat mishap
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- Over 70 rescued, six still missing as boat capsizes in Benue River 3 Oct, 17:06 UTC
Vanguard Nigeria 5 Oct, 12:25 UTC
Benue Boat Mishap: Over 30 feared trapped underwater
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Punch Nigeria 4 Oct, 23:50 UTC
Benue boat crash: Four dead, nine missing
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Daily Trust Nigeria 4 Oct, 14:55 UTC
Benue boat mishap: 5 bodies recovered, 6 still missing
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- 7 missing as boat capsizes in Benue 3 Oct, 14:49 UTC
Nigerian Tribune Nigeria 3 Oct, 15:24 UTC
Six missing in Benue boat mishap

International 1 outlet

AllAfrica International 5 Oct, 10:28 UTC
Nigeria: Benue Boat Mishap - Sema Deploys Divers On Search, Rescue
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- Nigeria: Benue Boat Mishap - 5 Bodies Recovered, 6 Still Missing 5 Oct, 05:32 UTC