LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to a report by New York Post on Monday, June 29, 2026, residents of Ghana’s capital, Accra, were forced to climb onto rooftops and stranded vehicles on Monday after torrential rainfall triggered severe flooding across the city, leaving several communities submerged, disrupting transportation and claiming lives. The heavy downpour, which began…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Guinness World Records has announced Nigerian man, Tonye Solomon’s feat of having most steps climbed on a ladder while balancing a football on his head. GWR disclosed this on its website on Wednesday after Solomon set the record in August in Bayelsa state. It said the Nigerian achieved the feat by…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Motorists are braced for higher pump prices after the cost of oil climbed above $90 a barrel for the first time this year as Russia and Saudi Arabia extended cuts to supplies. Oil jumped to its highest price since last November, after the two oil-rich nations said they would prolong a plan…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A video which surfaced on Tuesday showed how male and female customers climbed gates to enter a banking hall. Actor Adinma Somadina, who shared the video on his Instagram page, wrote, “See what this woman has to go through just to get into the bank and get money to feed her family;…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll in an attack on civilians and military personnel in northern Burkina Faso has climbed to at least 80. That’s according to the country’s regional Sahel government on Thursday. The attack happened on Wednesday, when Islamist militants raided a convoy being escorted by military police. Security forces said at least…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nura Ilyasu, the man who climbed a telecommunications mast in Abuja on Wednesday to protest the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally descended. He came down from the mast on Thursday. Ilyasu touched ground at 11:25am voluntarily, after security operatives acceded to his request that he must address the press…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An undergraduate of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Nura Iliyasu, has reportedly embarked on a one-man protest by climbing to the top of a 50-meter-mast in Abuja to object to alleged bad leadership of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Iliyasu, 26, will spend the next seven days starting from today,…