LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several passengers sustained injuries on Monday after a Abuja-Kaduna train was involved in an accident along the track. The incident occurred near Asham along the busy rail line connecting Abuja and Kaduna, triggering panic among passengers onboard the train. The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Kayode Opeifa, confirmed the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A devastating road traffic incident involving a mini yellow commercial bus (popularly known as Faka SMK 823 YK) claimed the lives of two occupants and left several others injured along Ballet inward corridor to Mile 2, Okota, Isolo, Lagos State. Preliminary security findings revealed that the unfortunate incident was precipitated by…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-five people have died and others were hurt, when their bus overturned in Kenya while traveling after a funeral, officials confirmed. The fatal incident occurred on Friday, Aug. 8, in Kisumu, the Associated Press reported. “The vehicle lost control, veered, rolled onto the other side of the road,” said local traffic enforcement…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The clash between Eiye Confronterny and Black Axe over control of recruitment in Ibaragun, Ogun State, left at least ten people dead and many more injured. The fight began early in the morning and quickly spread across the community. Armed cultists with guns, machetes, and clubs attacked the streets, destroying businesses and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered vehicle exploded on Thursday at the Nigerian Independent Petroleum Company (NIPCO) filling station while its cylinder was being filled. The Nigerian Tribune gathered that the vehicle, one of many in the city that had recently adopted CNG as an alternative fuel, had a locally fabricated cylinder attached…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-At least six people have been reportedly killed while some sustained injuries in the ongoing protest in Suleja, Niger State. The victims were said to have been killed while security operatives were struggling to dislodge a group of protesters who mounted barricade on a section of Abuja-Kaduna highway. Daily Trust had reported…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A violent confrontation occurred, yesterday, between diesel hawkers and a group known as ‘Show Boys’ at Mile 2, on the Oshodi-Apapa expressway, Lagos, with one person feared dead and several others injured. There were different accounts of how the fight broke out. A version of the account said the clash allegedly stemmed…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium on Wednesday at the Tin-Can Island Port as hoodlums attacked members of the Lagos State Cargo and Transport Committee (LASTCOC), killing one and injuring several others. Confirming the attack to newsmen, a member of the committee, Mr Seyi Adekanbi, said they were going to Tin-Can port to inform sensitive…