LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered vehicle exploded on Thursday at the Nigerian Independent Petroleum Company (NIPCO) filling station while its cylinder was being filled. The Nigerian Tribune gathered that the vehicle, one of many in the city that had recently adopted CNG as an alternative fuel, had a locally fabricated cylinder attached…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fire gutted a section of the Canadian High Commission in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja on Monday. Two persons reportedly lost their lives in the tragedy while others sustained injuries. Thick, dark smokes were seen spiraling into the skies from the tall, white diplomatic building located on the diplomatic drive in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 10 persons were killed while 25 shops and houses were razed as an early morning fire tore through the sleepy neighborhood of Kabong in Gada Biu area of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. Among the victims were said to be a man, his wife and child…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 34 people have died as a result of an explosion at a fuel depot in Benin Republic, Alarabiya is reporting. Citing an unnamed government official, the newspaper reported that the explosion happened on Saturday at a contraband fuel depot leaving dozens of charred bodies at the site. The depot…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Journalists across Ecuador have been targeted by explosive devices sent through the post. One presenter, Lenin Artieda, was injured when he opened the envelope in the middle of the newsroom. He said the explosive device looked like a USB drive. He plugged it into his computer and it detonated. The Ecuadorean attorney-general’s…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A massive explosion at a petrol station in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown has killed 92 people, the country’s vice president said on Saturday. Hospitals were treating 88 more people for severe burns, said Vice-President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, who arrived at the scene on Saturday along with several local officials. A rescue worker…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three bodies have been recovered and thirteen persons, including nine males and four females sustained various degree of burns as a tanker conveying Liquefied Petroleum Products, LPG, burst into flames in Lagos last night. According to Farinloye Ibrahim south west spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said the LPG tanker…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With COVID-19 cases increasing in 46 states, 10 of which broke single-day records for new cases on Thursday, America has officially entered what experts refer to as the “exponential” phase of spread — a rapid multiplying of cases that can’t be contained through traditional measures. On Thursday alone, the U.S. saw 160,000…