LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The United States National Transportation Safety Board has attributed the helicopter crash that killed former Access Holdings CEO, Herbert Wigwe, his wife, son, and three others to pilot error caused by spatial disorientation. The NTSB report, released on Wednesday, further indicted the helicopter company, accusing it of “inadequate oversight of its safety…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome was located Friday on sea ice, and all 10 people on board were dead, authorities said. The crash was one of the deadliest in the state in the last 25 years. Rescuers were searching…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and other officials died in a helicopter crash Sunday near Iran’s northern border with Azerbaijan, Iranian state media said Monday morning. The helicopter was part of a convoy of three helicopters returning from an event inaugurating a joint dam project when it crashed in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium in Ilorin, Kwara State, yesterday, as four people were feared dead and many injured when a vehicle conveying inmates to court and belonging to the Nigerian Prisons Services, NPS, was involved in an accident. But the Prisons authorities said no life was lost in the accident. Vanguard gathered that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The present scarcity of new naira notes in the country has crashed prices of chickens at Nsukka by over fifty percent. A survey conducted by The Whistler at Ikpa market of the university community on Monday shows that the dealers are having ‘bad market’ as they are forced to sell at highly…
A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 general elections, Chief Charles Udeogaranya has called on the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to abandon their presidential campaigns with immediate effect, as their chances of winning…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Four civilians were killed when the military-contracted helicopter they were on crashed near a Hawaiian naval facility on Tuesday morning, a report said. The Sikorsky S-61N was supporting a training operation when it went down on the outskirts of the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai at about 10 a.m., officials told…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Defence Headquarters on Friday said bad weather was responsible for the crash of a Nigerian Air Force Beachcraft 350 aircraft at the Kaduna International Airport. The crash claimed all 11 souls onboard including newly appointed Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru. In a statement signed by DHQ Acting Director…