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…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The whereabouts of a yet-to-be-identified mother, her baby and six other persons including a man identified simply as Umar, have reportedly been unknown after flood induced by a heavy downpour washed them away in the Agege area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that during the heavy downpour on Thursday, flood overran…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some houses and cars were sunk in water at the Abattoir-Orile Agege-Almaroof – Aboru canal, and the lyana-lpaja axis in Lagos State as flood continues to wreak havoc on the residents. The same situation of flooding was witnessed at the back of the Government Senior College Agege on Thursday and on the…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Parents of a four-year-old boy, Chukwuemeka Okoro, and their neighbours are currently troubled over their inability to retrieve the boy’s body almost one week after he was washed away by a flood in a Lagos community. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened last week Tuesday when Okoro fell into a canal…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Aba, Abia State and others Abians are full of praises for Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, the state Governor, for his bold and unwavering support for the presidential project of Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party, LP Presidential candidate after posters of “Peter Obi for President and Governor Ikpeazu for Senate,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least nine people died and eight others were missing in South Africa after a flash flood swept away members of a church congregation along the Jukskei River in Johannesburg, rescue officials said Sunday. A group of 33 worshippers had joined church rituals on the river banks when the flooding struck on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGER)-The body of a 13-year-old boy, Tosin Otun, who was swept away by flood on SCC Road in the Buhari area, Abuja, has been found. According to his sister, Toyosi, the victim was sent to get a goat tied beside a drainage channel close to their house when the incident happened on…