LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Goods and properties worth millions were razed on Saturday following a gas explosion that occurred at a market situated at Council Bus Stop along Egbeda-Ikotun Road, Alimosho Local Government Area, of Lagos State. Accordingly, the inferno resulted in unrest as traders and commuters scampered for safety. A statement by the Director of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Several people are feared dead following an explosion from a crude oil tapping point in Rumuekpe commumity in Emuoha Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that the explosion occurred when one of the buses loaded with crude oil ‘packaged in bags’ to transport to a refining site had started…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least nine people have reportedly been killed after a bomb exploded in Bama Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State. POLITICS NIGERIA learnt that the incident happened on Monday afternoon. The victims were scrap metal scavengers who reside in Government Girls Secondary School Bama, which is now an internally displaced persons’…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of persons were reportedly killed after a petrol pipeline exploded at Rumuekpe community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. Community sources told our reporter that the incident which occurred on Thursday, was as a result of oil bunkering activities. One of the sources said youths of the community were…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A fresh crisis is currently brewing in the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after a chieftain of the party, Prince Idris Balogun, accused ‘loyalists’ of Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola of taking over the structure of the party in the Alimosho federal constituency. Balogun in a letter…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A gas explosion has occurred at the Olusegun Obasanjo presidential library in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital. The explosion, which happened on Thursday morning at the event centre within the library complex, is said to have led to the death of a technician. Some workers at the facility were said to be on…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some parts of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, have been thrown into darkness, following an explosion that shattered a transformer at the transmission station. The management of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) confirmed the incident in a statement by spokesperson Chioma Aninwe. The statement listed the areas affected as Rumuokwuta, some parts…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was an unimaginable scare in Ushafa community, Abuja on Wednesday, when an explosion occurred near the Department of State Services, DSS, institute and around the exit pipe of the only dam supplying water to the entire FCT residence. The explosion, which occurred around 2 pm, DAILY POT gathered, shook houses in…
