LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 600 others on Sunday, authorities said. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said the explosion at 4 p.m. local time was due to the “negligent handling of dynamite” in the military barracks located in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than twenty people, many of them women and children, were trampled to death on Monday in a stampede for food and money for refugees in southeast Niger, sources said. “We have a provisional toll of 20 dead,” a medical source said. Aid workers confirmed the account and said about 10…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty people were killed when a limo heading to a surprise birthday party crashed in upstate New York, relatives and reports said Sunday. Eighteen of the dead were in the stretch SUV limo, while two were bystanders, authorities said. The group was going to a surprise birthday party, a relative of one…