LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of houses were affected as downpour and flood hit Lagos State on Tuesday morning. Many residents of Nigeria’s economic nerve centre were also stranded in their residential apartments and in their cars as major roads were submerged by flood after months of heatwaves in the state. In a statement, the South…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many residents of New York are currently trapped at home as a result of life-threatening storm and heavy rainfall which caused flooding in major parts of the American city. Reports from the United States revealed that infrastructural facilities, businesses and properties were damaged by the flood. Parts of Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRAGERS)-The city of Derna has buried thousands of people in mass graves, Libyan officials said Thursday, as search teams scoured ruins left by devastating floods and the city’s mayor said that the death toll could triple or more. The deluge swept away entire families on Sunday night and exposed vulnerabilities in the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 3,000 people are feared dead and another 10,000 missing in Libya after a storm in the Mediterranean caused dams to burst — washing entire coastal neighborhoods out to sea. Storm Daniel pounded the North African country Sunday night, unleashing heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding. But the major destruction would…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH 9NEWSRANGERS)-As the rains gradually inch to the peak, the Federal Government has warned Nigerians to get prepared for flood, especially in states around River Benue. The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Professor Joesph Terlumun- Utsev gave this warning at a news conference in Abuja, yesterday. Prof. Utsev noted that though the volume…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has concluded plans to stem the continuous slide of the naira against the dollar. Top of these plans is to flood the market with dollars, it was learnt yesterday. A CBN board member, who spoke to our correspondent under anonymity, said: “At this point, the bank…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Four people are missing after intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Canada’s Atlantic-coast province of Nova Scotia over the past two days, causing flash flooding, road washouts and power outages. The floods submerged multiple vehicles, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokeswoman Cindy Bayers said two such…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten members of a single family were swept away in a river surge in Malaysia, with seven bodies found just under 25 kilometers from where they had been swimming, a senior police official said Tuesday. The tragedy happened last Friday at the Jeram Mawar waterfall located deep in a forest in the…