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…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Panic gripped the Okuku country home of former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola in Osun State yesterday following a strange explosion, which rocked the ancient town. Okuku is the headquarters of Odo-Otin Local Government Area in Osun. It was learnt that a man whose identity is yet to be ascertained was seriously injured in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking Ishiagu community in lvo Local Government Area of Ebonyi has taken another dimension over who controls a royalty of N200m from a mining company operating in the area. News Express learnt that following the leadership tussle, the community has been divided into two factions, with two chairmen laying claim to…
