LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four American tourists and a Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed on a remote island in a lake in northwest Kenya, police said Monday. The accident occurred in the Central Island National Park in Lake Turkana on Sunday evening, police said in a statement. “There were five people on board,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A nightmare came true for one family in Florida when a plane fell from the sky and crashed through the roof of a home. The pilot of the flight was killed, but a trainee pilot and eight people inside the home all walked away with minor injuries. “It was the day of…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In what seems to be a suspected armed robbery attack, an FRSC driver was killed in an official patrol vehicle along Abuja- Kaduna express way at about 20 kilometres to the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday, 8 January, 2019. In an official statement released by the Corps Public Education Officer, Federal Road…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-At least five persons were on Thursday afternoon crushed to death in an accident after a truck rammed into a commercial bus in Lagos. The accident occurred around 3pm at Agulenjika Bus Stop along Oshodi-Apapa expressway. It was gathered the white commercial bus was driving against traffic inward Mile Two when it…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 3,600 people have been killed in clashes between farmers and herders in Nigeria since 2016, Amnesty International said on Monday, blaming the government’s failure to punish the perpetrators for fuelling the violence. The international human rights organisation said more than 2,000 were killed in 2018 alone, while the bloodshed had…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of people were reported to have been killed as petrol station caught fire in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, on Monday. An eye witness reported that the station caught fire as workers offloaded gas at the plant, adding that shops and houses were also burnt. Acording to him, the fire, which…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 30 persons were killed and dozens missing when Boko Haram insurgents ambushed a convoy of vehicles along the Dikwa-Ngala Road in Ngala Local Government Area Borno State yesterday, sources said. Security agents could not be reached for statement up to the time of filing this report. However, a top…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-Mr. Chinaka Adoezuwe was reportedly shot dead while trying to prove to his client the efficacy of a bullet repelling charm. The native doctor, 26, had been approached by one of his clients Chukwudi Ijezie to prepare a bullet repelling charm for him. A witness, John Madu, said that Chukwudi Ijezie, had…