LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister has warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a devastating economic crisis and vowed the government will buy enough fertiliser for the next planting season to boost harvests. A decision in April last year by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to ban all chemical fertilisers drastically cut…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 300 people have been killed in flooding following days of extreme rainfall in eastern South Africa, with some areas receiving up to six months’ worth of rain in a single day. Touring the devastated region on Wednesday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the severity of the downpours was further…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian gospel singer, Sister Osinachi Nwachukwu, has reportedly died. She was said to have breathed her last on Friday. The Imo State-born gospel singer died at the age of 42 years. Although no official confirmation yet from family members and close associates, the mother of four was said to have died in…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four people lost their lives on Thursday in an auto crash at Wannune, in the Tarka Local Government Area of Benue State. The accident reportedly occurred when a Toyota Hiace bus conveying 19 members of the Catholic Women Organisation lost control along the Gboko-Makurdi highway and hit a tree. The women, who…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-More facts have emerged over the death of Joseph Kabungo, a medical doctor from Zambia who was the Confederation of African Football (CAF) doping control officer for the Super Eagles and Black Stars game at the MKO Abiola stadium. Contrary to reports that he died after violence erupted at the end of…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Authorities on Tuesday said 82 lives had been lost in a spate of severe summer weather that has seen South Africa pummeled by persistent downpours for days. The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs said most of the deaths were due to drownings and lightening strikes. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the head…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three children, including a four-month-old baby boy, died after eating a packet of noodles on Sunday during a visit to relatives in New Brighton, in the Eastern Cape. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said police are investigating an inquest following the deaths of the three children, Sinothando Ngwendu (11), Olwam Ngwendu (7),…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A light aircraft piloted by Romanian billionaire, Dan Petrescu, crashed into an empty office building near Milan on Sunday, killing him, his wife and their son, and all five others aboard, Italian media reported. The single-engine Pilatus PC-12 had taken off from Milan’s Linate airport shortly after 1:00 pm (1100 GMT) headed…