LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Fire Service said one person was injured when an explosion was recorded at an independent marketing filling station in Badagry, Lagos state on Monday night. Abel Husu, the Station Head, Badagry Fire Service, Lagos State, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) on Tuesday. He…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A couple, Chukwudi Micheal and Bolani Micheal, have been inconsolable after losing four children to a fire that gutted their two-room apartment on Tapa Road, Oke-Oko, Isawo, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident occurred around 1pm on Sunday, June 26, as one of the children,…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 50 passengers were rescued when fire gutted the tyres of an aircraft operated by Dana Airlines Limited in Port Harcourt on Monday evening. The incident occurred at the Port Harcourt airport with no life lost and no passenger injured. A statement by Dana Air spokesman, Kingsley Ezenwa, confirmed the…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Zamfara State, Professor Sa’idu Babura Ahmed, has reported that their office in Kauran Namoda Local Government Area was gutted by fire. Confirming the fire incident in a statement, National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye Esq. Tuesday 3rd May 2022 confirmed that the tragic…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS0-Fire has destroyed the tomb shelter of the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, in the Agodo area of Ikotun, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the fire started around 6.30pm on Wednesday. A resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said no one could tell…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A fire on Wednesday badly damaged a main bridge in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, razing dozens of shops and risking more traffic chaos, the emergency services and witnesses said. The blaze broke out during an extended nationwide electricity shortage, which along with a spike in global fuel prices is already hurting households…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Fire is currently raging inside the headquarters of the Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja. The Ministry’s building located within the Central Business District is also adjacent Federal Secretariat in the nation’s capital. An witness disclosed that operatives of the federal fire service are yet to arrive as at time of…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A strange fire outbreak at the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp at Gamboru Ngala in Borno has rendered over 100 inmates homeless. The fire outbreak which occurred on Sunday evening completely destroyed three mud brick shelters, 12 makeshift shelters and nine emergency shelters. An official of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA)…