LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A professional footballer in Tunisia has died after setting himself alight earlier this week as a protest against “police injustice”, his family said. Tunisian football player Nizar Issaoui, 35, suffered third-degree burns and was taken to the specialist burns hospital in Tunis, but doctors were unable to save his life, his brother…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fire gutted a section of a five-storey building in the popular Balogun Market, Lagos Island, in the early hours of Tuesday, leading to loss of properties worth millions of naira. As of press time the cause of the inferno could not be ascertained. Also, there was no causality recorded. There is panic…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A branch of the Guaranty Trust Bank in the Mararaba area of the Federal Capital Territory was reportedly engulfed in flames in the early hours of Friday, The PUNCH reports. The GTBank branch is located along the Nyanya and Mararaba Expressway before Abacha Road, Karu. Mararaba is a border town, between the…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Goods worth millions of naira were destroyed when fire gutted a three-storey building housing warehouses with clothes and shoes in the popular Balogun market on Broad Street on Lagos Island. It was gathered that the fire at Thursday midnight and was put out by emergency responders but it started again around 3am….
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Police Command headquarters at Bompai, Nasarawa Local Government Area, was gutted by fire on Saturday, with many offices and files razed. The state fire service officials were said to have been deployed to the scene to contain the raging fire on the one-storey building of the command. It was…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A massive fire that lasted more than 12 hours in a Cambodian hotel casino killed at least 16 people and injured about 50, while other victims were apparently not yet accounted for Thursday, as neighboring Thailand sent firetrucks to help fight the blaze in a bustling border town. Videos posted on social…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Hameed Ali, has disclosed that the service has dismissed over 2000 staff members in the last seven years. Ali, who featured in the media briefing coordinated by the Presidential Media Team on Thursday in Abuja, said the service abhors corruption and has zero tolerance for…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is still unclear what the loss and casualties are as a fire outbreak on Sunday morning gutted a building at the Balogun Market located on the Lagos Island area of Lagos. This is the fifth time the market has gone up in flames. A similar incident occurred at the market sometime…