LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Junior Secondary School 3 (JSS-3) student has been arrested in Oju Local Government Area of Benue State for allegedly beating his teacher to death during a dispute over a seized school cap. The incident occurred on Thursday at UBE Secondary School, Oju Centre. The student, identified as 16-year-old Friday Ogamude, was…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A 33-year-old bricklayer, identified simply as Taiwo, lost his life after a fence he was erecting around a church in the Alapere area of Lagos State collapsed on him. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident occurred around 7pm on Saturday, while the bricklayer was working on the structure. Our correspondent gathered on…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 1,081 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia as temperatures in the region soared to 51.8 degrees Celsius. It is feared that the death toll could be higher, as more than half of the victims were unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A vehicle in the convoy of wife of the Nigerian president, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has killed a seven years old girl identified as Saratu Lawal in Akure, Ondo State, SaharaReporters has exclusively gathered. Mrs Tinubu was in Akure on Thursday to flag off the South-West leg of the Renewed Hope Initiative to…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than seven commuters have been killed by an explosion along the Maiduguri-Damboa Road. The explosion reportedly followed an Improvised Explosive Device, IED, planted by Boko Haram terrorists on the dilapidated and deserted road which passes through the Sambisa forest. It was said to have happened while cars on a scheduled…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An inmate killed his wife as she visited him in a prison in eastern Germany, prosecutors said on Friday. The Thursday incident occurred at the Burg prison in Magdeburg, west of Berlin. The 37-year-old prisoner was reportedly alone with his 35-year-old wife in a room set up for visitors of long-term inmates….
By: Zagazola Makama LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a harrowing display of mob injustice, 16 innocent travelers from Northern Nigeria lost their lives in the Udune Efandion community of Uromi, Edo State, after being falsely accused of kidnapping. This unfathomable tragedy unfolded on Thursday, as an irate mob took the law into their own hands, fueled…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Junior Secondary School 3 student, Timothy Amosun, aged 14, has died after a rainstorm destroyed Mayigi Community Comprehensive High School in Ilase, Ogun. The Ogun government confirmed the incident on Wednesday, March 19, through a statement by Mr. Lekan Adeniran, Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Dapo Abiodun. Five other pupils, two…