LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The British man who was the sole survivor of Thursday’s Air India plane crash said he managed to escape the wreckage through an opening in the fuselage. “I managed to unbuckle myself, used my leg to push through that opening, and crawled out,” Vishwashkumar Ramesh told Indian state media DD News….
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a development that has raised eyebrows across political circles, the presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has broken his silence over the circumstances surrounding the abrupt cancellation of his planned visit to Benue State. In a detailed statement issued yesterday, Mr Obi expressed concern about what he described as an unsettling incident,…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The truck driver who survived the lynching of 16 travellers of Kano State extraction, by a vigilante group in Uromi, Edo State, has recounted the harrowing experience, refuting claims that the incident was tribal-related. The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday when the travellers, believed to be hunters, were journeying…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Olaonipekun Temitope has shared the traumatic story of how she was deceived and trafficked to Libya by a close family acquaintance before eventually escaping. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Nollywood actress and filmmaker Biola Adebayo Ent, Temitope detailed the horrors she faced in Libya, where she was forced into prostitution. She…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I write this from a point of pain and gratitude. Pain because of the death of a hardworking and honest man, Rotimi Olaleye, who is both a great father, as attested to by his children who he has been taking care of single handedly since his wife died about five years ago,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bus driver, Ali Isah, has narrated how he escaped gunmen who kidnapped Afenifere Youth Council President, Prince Eniola Ojajuni, last week Monday in Ondo state. In a video exclusively obtained by The Nation, the driver who suffered gunshot injury from the kidnappers said the incident occurred at Akuni, an Ondo bother…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria forward Victor Osimhen says he plans to take legal action against Turkish journalist Tolga Bozduman in the wake of an altercation last week, which led to accusations of physical assault by the striker. Bozduman had accused the Galatasaray striker of assaulting him after the club’s 3-3 draw with Dinamo Kyiv. The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man from Ghana has told the BBC how he was seized at gunpoint by jihadists in neighbouring Burkina Faso, before being taken to their vast desert camp where he gained a rare insight into their lives – from the children he believed were trained as suicide bombers, to the tunnels they…