LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the buses conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, Sudan, to Port Sudan caught fire in the early hours of Monday, The PUNCH learnt. 26 buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12 am on Monday for Port Sudan where they will move into Saudi Arabia. According to the Chairman, Nigerians…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Friday said its men intercepted a bus conveying religious books which contained cocaine weighing 11.913 kilogrammes with a street value of N3.9 billion. In a statement by the spokesman of the command, Hussain Abdullahi, the command disclosed that officers and men…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons were said to have died on Friday while 48 others were rescued as a luxury bus loaded with passengers plunged into the lagoon at Owode area of Ikorodu Road in Lagos. The ill-fated bus which belonged to GUO Transport Company was said to be coming into Lagos from Enugu when…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 23 people have drowned after a bus travelling to a wedding plunged into a flooded river in Kenya. Video footage shows the bus was swept away after the driver tried to cross fast-flowing water over a bridge in the Enziu River, about 200km (125 miles) east of the Kenyan capital,…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fourteen passengers, including three children, have been burnt to death in an accident along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Our correspondent gathered that a silver Toyota RAV 4 with registration number, LND 13 GS; a silver Toyota Camry marked, GGE 369 GJ and a Mazda bus with unidentified number, were involved in the accident which…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Videos of some residents attacking a bus conveying loaves of bread and a truck conveying bags of rice in Lagos and Abuja respectively, has surfaced online, amidst the extended lockdown in Abuja, Ogun and Lagos state . This is coming after Nigeria’s President Mohammadu Buhari announced an extended 14-day lockdown across Abuja,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman was on Thursday mobbed in a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) bus at Onipanu Bus Stop in Lagos on allegation that she was responsible for the disappearance of the private parts of three men. A journalist with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who was at the scene, said the unnamed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said that the seeds for greatness are mainly sowed early in school. Obi was speaking at the weekend during his visit to the students of El Shalom Secondary School, Ogbaru, Anambra State, owned by the Anglican Diocese of Ogbaru. Obi…