LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 45-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter were among eight persons who died Thursday in a stampede that occurred during a prayer service organised by the Comfort Life Mission International church in the Ikotun area of Lagos. Many worshippers also sustained severe injuries in the stampede. The bodies of the yet-to-be-identified woman,…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Obumnaeme, son of the late Mrs. Dora Akunyili, a former Minister of Information, has revealed how some pastors collected money from her mother, promising to heal her of cancer. He stated this during an interview with Chude Jideonwo, Director-General at the Anambra State Project Monitoring and Management Office.According to him, his mother…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman, simply identified as Maryam Bobbo, her husband and four children have been reported to be missing after the terrorist attack on the Kaduna-bound train on Monday night. It had been reported that terrorists, on Monday night, bombed the Abuja-Kaduna rail tracks and attacked a train filled with passengers. According to a…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The dispatch rider who was publicly humiliated and accused of kidnapping and hiding a baby in his courier box (read here) is innocent, the child’s mother has said. In a video recorded by the owner of the logistics business to clear her company’s name, the child’s mother spoke up revealing no one stole…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A man has been arrested after he mistakenly stabbed his mother to death at Zawiyya Tudunwada, Kontagora, Niger state. The man was reportedly fighting his wife when his mother stepped in to intervene. The husband then allegedly reached for a knife and attempted to stab his wife, but he mistakenly stabbed his…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Singer Chibuzor Oji aka Faze has been is bereaved following the demise of his mother. The singer, who was a member of the defunct hip hop group, Plantashun Boyz, announced this on his Instagram page. He said his mother died on January 12, 2022, a year after he lost his twin sister….
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A mother ‘forgot’ her baby in a commercial bus while alighting in Imo state and efforts are being made to find the child’s mother. The driver of the bus said he picked up passengers from Ogbaku to Owerri, but on getting to Owerri, after every passenger alighted, the baby was left in…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This mom has been demonized by the internet for giving her offspring one of 2022’s trendiest — yet most inflammatory — baby names: Lucifer. Josie Barnes, 27, of Devon, England, says she has been receiving nonstop hate, and even death threats, from trolls since impulsively announcing the birth of her controversially named…