LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A severe landslide struck the agrarian community of Iwaro Oka Akoko in Akoko South West local government area of Ondo State over the weekend, causing widespread panic among residents. The disaster, triggered by heavy rainfall, swept away farmlands and food crops, forcing many residents to flee for safety. Residents of the town…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The number of people killed in landslides in southern Ethiopia has risen to at least 146, local officials have said. Two incidents are thought to have occurred on Sunday evening and Monday morning, after heavy rains in a remote mountainous area of the Gofa zone. The local authority said the search for…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Rescuers are searching for more than 60 missing people in Nepal after a massive landslide swept two buses into a river. Some spoke of their terrifying ordeal, with one saying he was “thrown out of the window of the bus into the river”. Only three people appeared to have survived the accident,…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Britain woke Friday to the scene of a political earthquake. The opposition Labour Party, after 14 years in the political wilderness, has handed a brutal defeat to the ruling Conservatives. Party leader Keir Starmer is now certain to become prime minister in the coming hours, replacing his Conservative Party counterpart, Rishi Sunak,…
LAGOS FEBRUAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former National President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Olumide Akpata, has emerged as the Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in Edo State. Akpata won the LP primary election held in Benin City, the state capital, on Friday. He was declared the winner of the primary after polling the highest number of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A landslide Friday at a tourist campground in Malaysia left 16 people dead and authorities said 17 others were feared buried at the site on an organic farm outside the capital of Kuala Lumpur. An estimated 94 Malaysians were believed to have been at the campsite in Batang Kali in central Selangor…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has emerged the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election in Edo State. Chairman of the APC Primary Election Committee and Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma disclosed this on Monday in Benin City, the state capital. Ize-Iyamu won the party’s primary after polling 27, 838 votes…