LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS0-A three-story building under construction collapsed Tuesday in northwestern Nigeria, trapping shoppers in a busy neighborhood. Emergency response workers told the Associated Press that at least eight people have been pulled from the rubble and they were searching for more. The building in Kano state, northern Nigeria’s commercial hub, was being constructed […]
Aug 31 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five victims have been rescued by a joint task force of operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Nigeria Police Force, and some residents. The two-storey building in Kubwa, a suburb within Abuja Municipal Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, collapsed on Thursday night. The building is […]
Aug 26 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A water tank from a scaffold fell and killed two persons at Ladi Lak, Bariga, Lagos State on Sunday night, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Zonal Coordinator, South West NEMA, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. Farinloye said that […]
Aug 22 2022 | Posted in
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Figures obtained on Monday from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator, an arm of the Federal Government’s power transmission company, showed that the national electricity grid actually crashed from a peak of 3,703 megawatts to as low as 9MW on Sunday. Nigeria witnessed widespread blackout on Sunday after the national grid collapsed around 6.49pm, before engineers […]
Jun 14 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than six people were injured, five of them critically, when The Deeper Life Bible Church, located at Iragbo community in Badagry, Lagos state collapsed on Sunday. The building collapsed at about 9.30 a.m while the service was in progress, amid a heavy rainstorm. One of the members of the Church […]
Apr 25 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two children have been killed and three others injured when the toilet block of the UK Bello Memorial Primary School, Paiko, Paikoro local government area of Niger state fell on the children. The incident occurred at about 10 am on Saturday. A source disclosed that the children went to the refuse dump […]
Mar 20 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Royal Charleroi have confirmed that Super Eagles defender Valentine Ozornwafor is in good condition following a major scare on Saturday night, after he collapsed twice in The Zebras’s 3-0 loss to Union Saint-Gilloise at the Stade du Pays de Charleroi in the Belgian topflight. The two-cap Eagles defender was taken off in […]
Feb 22 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The proprietor of Markaz Arabic and Islamic Training Institute, Agege, Lagos, Sheikh Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory, reportedly suffered a stroke during a sermon in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The incident, Daily Trust reliably gathered, occurred on Thursday during the Nikkah ceremony of the daughter of former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Alfa […]
Feb 7 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Edgard Estevo, commander of the Minas Gerais State Fire Department, said the accident occurred Saturday in Furnas Lake, between the towns of Sao Jose da Barra and Capitolio. The local fire department deployed divers and helicopters in a frantic effort to rescue the stunned tourists from the lake. Police Chief Marcos […]
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four construction workers were killed, while five others were rescued as another building collapsed in Lagos on Wednesday. The building, which was still under construction, fell in the Magbon, Badagry area of Lagos, the Lagos State Fire Service confirmed. On November 1, a 21-story building still under construction collapsed with many workers […]
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