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…
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…
