LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A truck carrying mangoes rammed into a mosque in Barade House, opposite the Old Licencing Office in Kontagora, Niger State, in the early hours of Friday. The driver of the truck was said to have taken off from Bida, Niger State, and was heading to Sokoto with four passengers when he dozed…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female staff member of the University of Ilesa in Osun State, whose name could not be immediately ascertained, on Wednesday, died as a container filled with cashew nuts being conveyed by a truck fell on her car. The accident, which happened along Ilesa/Ibodi Expressway, a few meters away from the university’s…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An eyewitness has narrated how divine intervention saved the lives of some 70 passengers onboard a long TATA bus on the ever busy Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos this Good Friday morning. In a brief narrative under a video that is now going viral, the eyewitness stated how an iron bar forced…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kano State High Court sitting has sentenced a Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, 47, to death by hanging for stabbing his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22, to death. The Chinese, living in Railway Quarters, Kano, was convicted on a one count charge of culpable homicide on Tuesday. Delivering judgment, Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Taliban’s Supreme Leader has vowed to start stoning women to death in public as he declared the fight against Western democracy will continue. “You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,” said Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada in a voice message, aired on state television over the…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Social media – especially Twitter – was taken over on the night of Saturday (March 9) by the information that Daniel Alves had passed away. The former football player is in prison in Spain and was recently sentenced to four years and six months for rape. The news of the Brazilian’s death,…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Japan-bound United Airlines flight was forced to divert to Los Angeles International Airport when the plane lost a tire after taking off in San Francisco Thursday, the airline confirmed. The falling landing gear from United Flight 35 damaged several cars in the parking lot of San Francisco International Airport after the…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, Labour Party Presidential candidate for the 2023 general election, has mourned the passing of veteran Nollywood actor, John Okafor AKA Mr Ibu. Mr Ibu passed away on Saturday after a long battle with an ailment. Writing on his X page, Peter Obi said Mr Ibu’s death is a huge loss…
