LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seventeen people were injured when two elephants at a Sri Lankan street pageant went on a rampage on Saturday (September 7), local media reported. TV footage of the parade shows one of the elephants bolting from a group of people before trampling bystanders as it ran down the road. Starting from a…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major accident involving a Dangote truck loaded with Dangote Cement and mass transit bus in Lagos has left many dead, with the leg of the bus driver cut off. There were 40 seated and 20 standing passengers in the Primmer operated mass transit bus when the accident occurred on Tuesday. According…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four policemen were left dead and six others wounded when separatists detonated an improvised explosive device in Cameroon’s restive English-speaking region, that country’s government said on Sunday. “The government condemns in the strongest terms this criminal act, perpetrated by armed bandits and terrorists with no faith or law,” the statement said. It…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria have replaced injured striker Odion Ighalo with Galatasaray forward Henry Onyekuru for an upcoming 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa. China-based Ighalo, who plays for Changchun Yatai, is the leading scorer in the Africa Cup qualifiers with six goals. But a hamstring injury that has sidelined him for…