LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At least two people have died and more than 50 are missing after a coal mine collapsed in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region on Wednesday, state media reported. The collapse occurred in Alxa League in the western part of the region at around 1 pm (0500 GMT), according to state broadcaster CCTV….
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has welcomed the endorsement of Labour Party (LP) candidate for next month’s Presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, by respected former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, describing it as a patriotic move to rescue the country from collapse. POSN in a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
