LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Police Command headquarters at Bompai, Nasarawa Local Government Area, was gutted by fire on Saturday, with many offices and files razed. The state fire service officials were said to have been deployed to the scene to contain the raging fire on the one-storey building of the command. It was…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is still unclear what the loss and casualties are as a fire outbreak on Sunday morning gutted a building at the Balogun Market located on the Lagos Island area of Lagos. This is the fifth time the market has gone up in flames. A similar incident occurred at the market sometime…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS0-Fire has destroyed the tomb shelter of the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, in the Agodo area of Ikotun, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the fire started around 6.30pm on Wednesday. A resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said no one could tell…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Fire is currently raging inside the headquarters of the Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja. The Ministry’s building located within the Central Business District is also adjacent Federal Secretariat in the nation’s capital. An witness disclosed that operatives of the federal fire service are yet to arrive as at time of…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An angry mob, on Sunday, set ablaze two vehicles belonging to officials of the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) in Sokoto state, after four persons were killed in a road mishap that involved three commercial vehicles. “One of the drivers was carrying goods like rice and vegetables from the Illela border and eventually…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major fire ripped through South Africa’s 138-year-old Parliament complex on Sunday, gutting offices and causing some ceilings to collapse at a site that has hosted some of the country’s pivotal moments. As firefighters struggled to tame the blaze, a dark plume of smoke and flames rose high into the air above…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-seven people were feared dead after a fire swept through a mental health clinic in the Japanese city of Osaka, the local fire department said. The blaze is being treated as suspected arson, the Kyodo news agency said, quoting police sources saying that a man who appeared to be in his 60s…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Property worth millions of Naira have been destroyed in an inferno that razed the House of Osun State Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode, on Sunday. The house is situated in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The Osun State Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Yemisi Opalola confirmed the incident on Monday. In…
