LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than three athletes were confirmed dead, while several others sustained various degrees of injuries in a road accident involving the operational van of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Zuru Unit Command, Kebbi State on Thursday. It was gathered that the FRSC van was overloaded with athletes conveying them to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to the new mayor of Johannesburg, following his death in a car crash aged 46. Jolidee Matongo had been campaigning with Mr Ramaphosa before the accident. His vehicle collided with a van while trying to avoid a pedestrian who had run on to the…
No fewer than twenty one military recruits have been reported killed in an accident in Jigawa State. The fatal incident happened after their vehicle submerged in water along the Gwaram/basirka road in Jigawa State. Police spokesman man ASP Lawan Shiisu Adam confirmed the incident to DAILY POST. He said the military recruits were en route…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 10 persons reportedly died in a lone auto crash involving an 18-seater commercial Hiace bus, in a town near Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, yesterday. It was gathered that the accident occurred at a location called Iyemoja along the Olooru-Okolowo area of the Ilorin-Jebba expressway in the Moro Local…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A head-on collision involving an 18-Seater commercial bus and a petrol tanker on Wednesday led to burning alive of 18 passengers and the two vehicles at Ajilete near Idiroko border in Ogun State. TheCaveat.info gathered that excessive speed and wrongful overtaking led to the head-on collision, when the commercial bus coming from…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Mohammed Babangida, the son of former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida, narrowly escaped death Monday evening when his convoy ran into a trailer loaded with tomatoes along the Minna-Suleja highway. Three of the security guards, all soldiers, died in the accident after their black Prado jeep had a head-on collision with the trailer…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pharaoh Okadigbo, son of an ex-senate president, the late Chuba Okadigbo, is dead. Pharaoh is said to have died in a car accident that occurred on Saturday, but the cause of his death had not been independently verified as of the time of this report. Reacting to the news of his death…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS0-Former Jigawa chief judge Aminu Sabo Ringim died in a lone automobile crash at about 1:00 p.m., on Tuesday, in Shafar village, Ringim local government area. Adamu Shehu, the spokesman for the Jigawa command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), confirmed the incident to journalists in Dutse. “The incident…