LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger plane on Thursday landed on cracking ice on a notorious Russian river due to a pilot’s mistake. Thirty passengers and four crew were safely evacuated on foot from the Polar Airlines An-24 propeller plane in Yakutia, Siberia‘s coldest region. The pilot mistook the frozen Kolyma River for a small landing strip…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Niger’s junta said on Thursday that it had thwarted an escape attempt by ousted President Mohamed Bozoum who has been imprisoned by the military since a July 26 coup despite international calls for his release. The interim authorities said that Bazoum and his family, with the help of accomplices in the security…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pandemonium broke out in Garki International Market in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, on Thursday as some youths attempted to lynch some yet-to-be identified operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, and other individuals. DAILY POST gathered that the problem began when the DSS operatives allegedly fired a shot in…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Apex lgbo socio-cultural Organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has on Sunday disclosed that Simon Ekpa was tracked down in the Espoo city of Finland on 21st July 2023, but managed to evade capture with unbearable and severe injuries in what looked like an assassination attempt.. Ekpa has been implicated in orchestrating a series of…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bride in Niger State recently removed her wedding gown and ran kilometers in the bush to escape abduction by bandits who attacked them while she was being taken to her matrimonial home. City & Crime gathered that the bride was being taken from a village in Paikoro LGA to Kuta, headquarters…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A warder attached to the Kirikiri Custodial Centre, Lagos State, Kayode Fatombi, has been arrested by the police for allegedly aiding the escape of some prison inmates. Sunday PUNCH gathered that three men were arrested by the police for alleged robbery and kidnapping. They were subsequently arraigned before the Lagos State High…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lamidi Apapa, the factional National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), has expressed his gratitude to God for saving his life after being mobbed at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The incident occurred during the proceedings of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Wednesday. In a video that circulated earlier,…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A total of 143 passengers yesterday escaped death when a Max Air aircraft yesterday crash-landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) in Abuja, after its tyre reportedly burst into flames. The management of Max Air disclosed that all the 143 passengers and an infant on board the aircraft with registration No:…