LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 21 passengers are feared to have drowned in an accident involving two boats that occurred at Imore town in the Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State. According to eyewitness accounts, the tragedy struck when two boats, each ferrying 16 passengers, collided and capsised in the middle of the…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Ogun State, Barrister ‘Niyi Ijalaye, is dead. It was reliably gathered that the Ogun REC slumped and died in Abuja on Monday evening after a meeting of RECs at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja. A source at the Ogun State…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kenyan magistrate who was shot by a senior police officer earlier this week has died, according to the country’s chief justice. Justice Martha K Koome wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Makadara Principal Magistrate Monica Kivuti had “lost the fight” against her “extensive injuries”. Ms Kivuti was shot by a policeman…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)- — Malawian Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people died when the small military plane they were traveling in crashed in bad weather in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the president said Tuesday. Chilima was 51. President Lazarus Chakwera announced in a live address on state…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Saturday, May 25, 2024, narrated how two women were struck dead by lightning during rainfall in the FESTAC area of the state. Hundeyin disclosed this on his X handle, adding that the women, who were living in a shanty…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An officer of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdulwahab Magaji, serving in the Federal Capital Territory, reportedly shot himself dead in his residence on Binta Street, Farm Estate area, Abuja. PUNCH Metro gathered from a senior law enforcement officer that the incident happened last Monday. According to the source, the family of the…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of Ondo State Police Command have arrested a 17-year-old girl simply identified as Wunmi for allegedly stabbing her foster mother, Mrs. Funmilayo Adelayi, to death. The incident reportedly happened at Oda, Akure, the residence of the deceased, last Wednesday. This was contained in a statement released by the State Police Spokesperson,…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm’s production standards has been found dead in the US. John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017. In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company….
