LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 43 West African migrants trying to reach Europe drowned off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, after their boat capsized in rough seas, in the first shipwreck of 2021 in the central Mediterranean, United Nations agencies said on Wednesday. Ten survivors were rescued and brought to shore by coastal security…
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Akwa Ibom has confirmed the drowning of three children of police officers in a pool of water at Eket barracks. Speaking to newsmen, SP Odiko Macdon, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, described the incident as “painful and shocking.” He said that the Commissioner of Police in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A heartbroken Nigerian-British woman whose two children and husband drowned at a Costa Del Sol hotel in Spain has said they all knew how to swim, contradicting earlier accounts. Olubunmi Diya instead said she believed ‘something was wrong with the pool’. Olubunmi’s husband Gabriel and children Comfort and Praise-Emmanuel died in the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The office of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in United Kingdom has announced that a 52-year-old pastor of the church, Gabriel Diya, his 16-year-old son, Praise Emmanuel Diya and 9-year-old daughter, Comfort Diya, drowned inside the swimming pool in the Costa del Sol resort in Southern Spain on Tuesday December 24th….
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Did the Police cause the drowning of three young men in the wee hours of Thursday at Apongbon seaside, in Lagos? The above question has remained unanswered as controversial continues to trail the death of David, Femi, and another friend of theirs. It was gathered that the deceased and seven other of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Frontline Maritime journalist ,Mr . Godfrey Bivbere narrowly escaped death on Lagos waters while traveling from Agbara to Liverpool in Apapa , Lagos. Bivbere, a staff of Vanguard Newspaper and 22 other passengers, on Wednesday morning , fortunately got rescued when speed boat they were travelling on suddenly capsized in the middle…
LAGOS ARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two final year students of Abia State University have lost their lives after they drowned in a river when they went swimming. The source revealed the duo identified as identified as Charles Benjamin Ngozichukwuka and Kelechi Elendu, went to a river to take a swim with their other friends where they drowned…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pastor died yesterday after he drowned while baptising his church members in the river at Blood River village in Seshego outside Polokwane in South Africa. According to reports, the pastor entered the flooded river and was swept away. The church members who were about to be baptised, were left reeling from…
