LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty one people have died after a bus flipped over and plunged off a bridge in Mali on Tuesday. The bus had been en route to neighbouring Burkina Faso from the Malian town of Kenieba when it veered off a bridge crossing the Bagoe river. At least ten others were injured –…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck in Plateau State yesterday evening as a truck conveying the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the Pankshin venue of their governorship campaign rally in Plateau Central Zone veered off the road and crashed into the bush, killing several persons and leaving others critically injured. A source at the community said the truck…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons were said to have died on Friday while 48 others were rescued as a luxury bus loaded with passengers plunged into the lagoon at Owode area of Ikorodu Road in Lagos. The ill-fated bus which belonged to GUO Transport Company was said to be coming into Lagos from Enugu when…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A National Diploma certificate holder, identified as Lekan Odunare, has reportedly jumped into the Lagos Lagoon in an attempt to commit suicide. PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim, whose body had yet to be recovered, jumped into the lagoon in the Epe area around 10am on Tuesday. In a video circulating on…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 23 people have drowned after a bus travelling to a wedding plunged into a flooded river in Kenya. Video footage shows the bus was swept away after the driver tried to cross fast-flowing water over a bridge in the Enziu River, about 200km (125 miles) east of the Kenyan capital,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting around 5% on Monday,…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unspecified number of passengers are feared dead as a vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into an excavation pit in Ebonyi on Saturday. The pit is about 32 feet deep. The accident, which occurred around 1:30pm, happened along Abakaliki-Ikwo expressway at Enyigba-Izzi community in Abakaliki Local Government Area. Officers from…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Chinese American socialite who once rubbed elbows with Hillary Clinton plunged naked from her penthouse in Hong Kong while holding her 5-month-old daughter in her arms, leaving them both dead, according to reports. The horrific incident involving 34-year-old Lili Luo and her daughter, Aier, happened on Jan. 6 in Yau Ma…