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…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least eight people have been killed by landmine explosion in Kinewba village along Ngala-Dikwa road in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State. Dozens of other people were said to have sustained various degrees of injuries as a result of the explosion which occurred on Tuesday. Politics Nigeria reports that the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least three people were killed and dozens wounded in a bomb attack on a Catholic Mass in the insurgency-plagued southern Philippines on Sunday, with President Ferdinand Marcos blaming “foreign terrorists”. The blast happened during a regular service at Mindanao State University’s gymnasium in Marawi, the country’s largest Muslim city, regional police…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fire gutted a section of the Canadian High Commission in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja on Monday. Two persons reportedly lost their lives in the tragedy while others sustained injuries. Thick, dark smokes were seen spiraling into the skies from the tall, white diplomatic building located on the diplomatic drive in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium in Ilorin, Kwara State, yesterday, as four people were feared dead and many injured when a vehicle conveying inmates to court and belonging to the Nigerian Prisons Services, NPS, was involved in an accident. But the Prisons authorities said no life was lost in the accident. Vanguard gathered that…
LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many people were injured in an accident that occurred earlier today. According to an eyewitness, Raymond with the handle, ”@IAmTheIrokothe, the sad incident happened along Cement Bus stop in Lagos. The witness further stated that the accident might have taken place due to reckless driving by drivers of the two BRT buses…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than two persons have lost their lives in a road accident which involved some officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and individuals suspected to be smugglers. DAILY POST gathered that the incident occurred along the Iseyin-Ibadan road in Oyo State on Thursday. Sources told DAILY POST that the customs…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The passenger manifest for the ill-fated Kaduna-bound train indicated that of the 362 people that boarded the train, eight people lost their lives, 26 passengers were injured, while some are still unaccounted for. This information is contained in a statement issued Tuesday by Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs,…