LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Miss Congo Dorcas Kasinde’s wig caught fire after being crowned Miss Africa 2018. 24-year-old Dorcas Kasinde beat other contestants to win the crown. Miss Nigeria came second while Miss Zambia came third. As Miss Congo celebrated her victory and hugged her predecessor, her wig caught fire. Thankfully, Ebuka came to her rescue…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2019 (NEWSRANGERS)-A Tunisian journalist has died after setting himself on fire, officials said, in a protest over harsh living conditions that prompted overnight clashes with police in the country’s west. Police fired tear gas at dozens of people who took to the streets Monday night in the city of Kasserine, 270 kilometres (165…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A journalist, Akinwunmi Dickson, and his son Nelson, 12, have been killed after fire gutted a shopping complex on Awolowo Way, in the Ikeja area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the deceased were asleep in an office in the complex when the incident happened around 5am on Sunday. An eyewitness,…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A fire outbreak occurred at Ecobank headquarters on Victoria Island, Lagos, on Tuesday. According to an eyewitness, who shared details on her Twitter handle, @AN26th, the fire started when a “diesel tanker exploded near their generator.” On its Twitter handle, the bank said, the situation was under control. See tweet: Officers of…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The office of Osun state Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola located in the state secretariat, Abeere Osogbo was on Monday evening gutted by fire. Though the Governor was not in the office at the time of the incident, but his deputy, Mrs. Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori, was said to be in her office when…
LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Investigations have revealed that 28 oil workers were still trapped on the ConOil platform in Koluama 1 community of Southern Ijaw in Bayelsa State, after it was engulfed by fire on Saturday morning. No less than 100 oil workers were confirmed rescued yesterday. The fire, which was confirmed by the Joint Military…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sympathisers thronged Alade Close, Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday after an early morning fire claimed the lives of a middle-aged businesswoman, her teenage maid and houseboy. The deceased lived in a two-bedroomed apartment on the top floor of a one-storeyed building on the close. PUNCH Metro learnt that the woman’s husband and their…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Violence has reportedly broken out in Kasuwan Magani, Kajuru Local Government are of Kaduna State. Many houses have reportedly been set on fire. Details of the violence are still sketchy, but a source said it has to do with the abduction and forceful conversion of some girls by a religious group. Kasuwan…
