LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Africa has said it will clamp down on unregistered traditional initiation schools for young men, after at least 41 died in recent coming-of-age rites involving circumcision. Tens of thousands of teenagers take part in highly secretive initiations each year as a rite of passage into manhood practised by some of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) is profoundly grieved to report a catastrophic multi-vehicle collision that occurred in the early hours of yesterday at Secretariat inward Otedola Bridge, along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway. The tragic accident instantly claimed the lives of three members of the same family father, mother and their…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has announced with profound sorrow and grave solemnity, the occurrence of a ghastly and fatal road traffic collision that unfolded earlier yesterday along Ikorodu Road, Lagos, precisely opposite Olabode House, after Anthony and before Obanikoro. Preliminary findings indicate that a red long Tata commercial…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Eight students of the University of Jos (UNIJOS) have died following a road traffic accident on Zaria Road in the Plateau State capital. The incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday when a bus carrying the students collided with a trailer opposite Unity Bank. Eyewitnesses said eleven students were on board…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In an incident of profound tragedy that cast a pall of grief over the Ikorodu metropolis, three promising students of the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), Ikorodu two males and one female lost their lives instantaneously in a fatal multiple-vehicle collision that occurred at Powerline Junction, before Aleje,…
By Chief Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two years have passed since October 7, yet the world still speaks as if history began that day. It didn’t. It began decades ago with occupation, siege, and the slow suffocation of over two million people trapped in Gaza. For 17 years, Gaza has been under blockade…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Grammy-Award winning songwriter Brett James has been killed in a plane crash. He was among three people on board the Cirrus SR22T that crashed in a field near a North Carolina school. James, 57, made his name as a songwriter and worked with top stars including the likes of Carrie Underwood,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 50 Sudanese refugees lost their lives when a boat bound for Greece caught fire and went under off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has confirmed. According to the UN migration agency, the vessel sank about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the eastern city of Tobruk….