LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-30-year-old teacher and choir master, Nathaniel Baiyegun, has been arrested by the police in Ogun State for allegedly kidnapping and killing a 16-year-old student after collecting a ransom of N500,000 from her family. The deceased, said to be a West African Examination Council (WAEC) candidate, was allegedly lured to her death…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 19 wedding guests lost their lives on Saturday when a commercial bus conveying a bride and other passengers plunged into a river while crossing a broken bridge at Gwalli village in Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The victims were travelling from Fass village in Gummi LGA to…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 18 people died and another nine were injured after a bus skidded off a bridge and plunged into a river in Algeria. On Friday, Aug. 15, the bus was traveling near the Oued El Harrach river in Algeria’s capital of Algiers when it fell off the bridge into…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Over 100 cattle reportedly belonging to suspected armed Fulani herdsmen have died while attempting to cross the River Benue into Nasarawa State. The incident occurred on Saturday, with eyewitnesses saying many of the animals drowned or were buried by collapsing sandbanks along the river due to erosion. Olikita Ekani, a farmer who…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck on Monday night along the Eleme axis of the East-West Road when a vehicle attempting to flee from suspected armed kidnappers plunged into the Okulu River. Reports indicated that the driver of a Toyota Hilux van, carrying an expatriate and other workers from an undisclosed company, lost control of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 71 people have died in southern Ethiopia after a lorry plunged into a river, officials say. The vehicle, which was travelling through Sidama state on Sunday, fell into the river after it missed a bridge, a local official told the Reuters news agency. Wosenyeleh Simion said many of the passengers…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Rescuers are searching for more than 60 missing people in Nepal after a massive landslide swept two buses into a river. Some spoke of their terrifying ordeal, with one saying he was “thrown out of the window of the bus into the river”. Only three people appeared to have survived the accident,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, the Emir of Ilorin, Alh. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari and the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), have mourned the death of a popular Islamic preacher and foremost Qur’an memoriser, Sheikh AbdulGaniyu Aboto. Sheikh Aboto, a prominent alumni of Kamaliyyya- Adabiyya, the educational wing of the Ansarul Islam Society…