LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two policemen have died, while others sustained injuries, following an accident which occurred at Eiyekorin area, along the Ilorin-Ogbomoso expressway, on Thursday. Ajayi Okasanmi, police public relations officer (PPRO) of the Kwara command, confirmed the incident. He explained that the officers had escorted a bullion van to Ogbomoso, and were on their…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department executed a search warrant to investigate the black box from the car Tiger Woods crashed last week. Sheriff’s Deputy John Schloegl confirmed to USA Today on Tuesday that the department sought data from the car to determine if criminal charges were necessary. He characterized the warrant…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The golf world is expressing concern for Tiger Woods, who had to be removed from his wrecked SUV Tuesday morning following a single-car accident in Los Angeles. The PGA legend was undergoing surgery to repair multiple leg injuries, according to agent Mark Steinberg. “I’m sick to my stomach. It hurts to see…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Niger says 23 persons lost their lives when a truck fully loaded with dozens of cows and 45 persons, skidded off the road and somersaulted into a bush. The accident occurred at about 0500 hours along Bokani -Makera road in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state, according…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mamelodi Sundowns and South Africa defender Motjeka Madisha died early Sunday after crawling out of a burning car wreckage following an accident, a club official told AFP. The 25-year-old star was one of two occupants of a car that went out of control, hit an advertising board and burst into flames in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-— A man was arrested after he drove a speeding car into a pedestrian area in the western German city of Trier on Tuesday, police said, killing five people, including a 9-month-old. The crash injured at least 14 others, in addition to killing a 73-year-old woman, and the infant, Mayor of Trier,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Anele Ngcongca, a former South Africa defender who played for the host team at the 2010 World Cup, died in a car crash early Monday. He was 33. The South African government said Ngcongca died in the crash in the Kwazulu-Natal province. South African media reports said he was a passenger in…
LAGOS November 22nd (newsrangers)-Five escaping prisoners died on Saturday when their car hit a tree after more than 60 detainees broke out of a Lebanese detention centre outside the capital Beirut, Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said in a statement. The ISF statement did not say how the 69 prisoners had escaped from the facility,…