LAGOS November 22nd (newsrangers)-Five escaping prisoners died on Saturday when their car hit a tree after more than 60 detainees broke out of a Lebanese detention centre outside the capital Beirut, Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said in a statement. The ISF statement did not say how the 69 prisoners had escaped from the facility,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A member of the House of Representatives, Nicholas Garba Sarkin Noma reportedly escaped death when gunmen opened fire on his vehicle. The spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna state, Abraham Alberah Catoh, said the attack occurred along the Kwoi-Fadan Kagoma road on Saturday, October 3, The Sun reported. Sarkin…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Osun State Commissioner of Police, Undie Adie, is currently hospitalized at the police clinic in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, after a Toyota corolla car rammed into his convoy on his way to Osun state after a burial ceremony in Cross River state. Our corresoondent gathered that the incident occurred at Eche Mass…
LAGOS AUUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected serial killer, Sunday Shodipe, has narrated how he escaped from Mokola Police Station, Ibadan, Oyo State on Tuesday. The suspect said a female Divisional Police Officer, who was recently deployed to the station ordered one officer (Funsho) to allow him to take his bath. He said the officer had warned him…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A leading member of the Edo Peoples Movement (EPM), a splinter group of Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC), Barrister Henry Idahagbon, Thursday survived assassination attempt on his life. Gunmen suspected to be assassins reportedly stormed Idahagbon’s office on 52b Siluko road in Benin City, the state capital and fired repeated shots…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Koton Karfe custodial centre in Kogi has collapsed under heavy flooding, loading to escape of 228 inmates. The Comptorller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Jafar Ahmed, who confirmed this while speaking with newsmen in Koton Kafe on Monday said that the flood came at about 3a.m., submeging the perimetre fence…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ethiopian Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing minutes after taking off in Senegal on Tuesday because an engine had caught fire, an airport spokesman said. None of the 90 passengers or crew were injured, spokesman Tidiane Tamba told Reuters. The airline confirmed on Twitter that its Boeing 767…
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…
