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)…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major fire ripped through South Africa’s 138-year-old Parliament complex on Sunday, gutting offices and causing some ceilings to collapse at a site that has hosted some of the country’s pivotal moments. As firefighters struggled to tame the blaze, a dark plume of smoke and flames rose high into the air above…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The inferno at Next Cash and Carry supermarket in the Jahi area of Abuja was caused by an electrical surge, a worker at the supermarket said. The worker who pleaded anonymity said the fire started from the first floor of the building around 8am on Sunday morning. This is as he…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-seven people were feared dead after a fire swept through a mental health clinic in the Japanese city of Osaka, the local fire department said. The blaze is being treated as suspected arson, the Kyodo news agency said, quoting police sources saying that a man who appeared to be in his 60s…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 25 primary school children were killed when their thatched-roof classrooms caught fire in southern Niger on Monday, the council of ministers said in a statement. Fourteen more children were injured, including five in a critical condition, the statement said. The school is in the town of Maradi, more than…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A section of Abonnema Wharf in Port Harcourt Local Government Area of Rivers State was on Wednesday gutted by fire. The incident has caused panic in the area as several petrol tankers parked in the area made frantic efforts to leave at the same time. The cause of the fire was yet…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Afghan woman was reportedly set on fire by Taliban fighters because they weren’t satisfied with a meal she prepared, according to The Telegraph. A former judge, Najla Ayoubi, told Sky News that she had received multiple reports of violence against women by the insurgent group, The Telegraph reported. This particular incident,…
