LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than twenty people, many of them women and children, were trampled to death on Monday in a stampede for food and money for refugees in southeast Niger, sources said. “We have a provisional toll of 20 dead,” a medical source said. Aid workers confirmed the account and said about 10…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man has died after falling from the 12th floor of his apartment while allegedly attempting to evade immigration officers. The man, known as Ogodor, from Uli, Anambra state, fell from the Gading Nias Apartment in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday, January 23, 2020. There are conflicting reports about how he died. Some Nigerians…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former University of Texas at San Antonio football player has been arrested and charged in the fatal stabbing of his sister at a home north of Austin. The Travis County sheriff´s office says 25-year-old Michael Egwuagu who is originally from Nigeria was charged with murder in the Friday killing of his…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man identified as Chukwuma Anthony Ezeh, on Wednesday, December 11th slumped and died at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. An official source at the MMIA arrival terminal said the passenger on arrival from China, slumped and died while waiting to collect his luggage. Ezeh, according to information on…