LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 17 people died in a stampede during rice distribution in Anambra today. Also, about 10 fatalities were recorded in Abuja where palliatives were being distributed. Eyewitnesses described the scenes as chaotic and tragic. One said at least seven of the deceased in the Abuja tragedy were children. Anambra In…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has expressed sadness over the death of seven Nigerians who died while attempting to buy the subsidized rice auctioned by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Reports confirmed that the Service had announced plans to distribute seized food items from smugglers to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than twenty people, many of them women and children, were trampled to death on Monday in a stampede for food and money for refugees in southeast Niger, sources said. “We have a provisional toll of 20 dead,” a medical source said. Aid workers confirmed the account and said about 10…