LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck on Monday night along the Eleme axis of the East-West Road when a vehicle attempting to flee from suspected armed kidnappers plunged into the Okulu River. Reports indicated that the driver of a Toyota Hilux van, carrying an expatriate and other workers from an undisclosed company, lost control of the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following Sunday’s killing of 18 persons in a crash involving an articulated vehicle on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway, FRSC Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, has directed that such vehicles conveying humans and animals together be impounded. Apart from those who died in the Sunday crash, 27 other passengers sustained injuries in the accident that…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Haulage driver attached to Ugwu and Sons, Mr. Emeka Paul Ofume, yesterday, escaped death in the hands of gunmen who attacked his distribution van. Ugwu and Sons is one of the haulage companies engaged by The Guardian for distribution of the company’s daily newspapers. It was gathered that Ofume left Asaba…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) today confirmed that a motor boy fell off and died immediately as a truck conveying wheat overturned under heavy rain on Otedola Bridge inward Berger, Lagos. LASTMA Oduyebo Oluwole ‘Zebra’ (Zone 2) disclosed that the fatal accident caused severe congestion for road users…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-MaxAir says one of its aircraft is temporarily trapped in Niamey due to the ongoing military coup in Niger. In a statement on Thursday, the airline’s management said the aircraft had successfully dropped off the last group of Niger pilgrims it became stranded. Although the aviation firm did not state the number…
LAGOS JUNE 27 (NEWSRANGERS)-A vehicle carrying bags of diesel believed to be illegally refined product popularly referred to as ‘Kpo fire’ in the Niger Delta, burst into flames while on transit along NTA Road, Mgbuoba, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, on Saturday night. The incident, which happened in front of Aganorlu Street,…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck in Plateau State yesterday evening as a truck conveying the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the Pankshin venue of their governorship campaign rally in Plateau Central Zone veered off the road and crashed into the bush, killing several persons and leaving others critically injured. A source at the community said the truck…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some unidentified gunmen reportedly waylaid an ambulance conveying a dead body and kidnapped the younger brother of the deceased in Edo State. The deceased who died in Lagos was being conveyed in an ambulance from Lagos State to Enugu for the burial rites before the incident. The Gunmen were said to have…