LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many have been feared dead following a tanker explosion in Oshigbudu, Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. According to an amateur video sent by an eyewitness on Sunday, many houses, shops and properties were also destroyed in the inferno. Agatu local government area is some four hours drive from Makurdi, the…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some residents, including students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba (AAUA) in Ondo State, were reportedly killed or injured when a truck ran into them at the institution’s gate on Saturday. Witnesses confirmed that a yet unknown number of people were killed after a truck belonging to the Dangote Group, conveying bags of…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reports from Biu local government area of Borno State, northeast Nigeria, on Monday evening, revealed that suspected Boko Haram fighters have attacked three villages, bringing down houses, shops and places of worship. DAILY POST reports that residents of the areas said about 90 residential houses, a Church, Clinic, 9 shops, and other…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Israel cabinet will convene on Saturday night to approve a series of measures aimed at rolling back of some coronavirus restrictions in order to restart the economy, with steps likely to be significantly more widespread than health officials wanted. With the statistics on the number of new cases and the number of…
LAGOS JANUAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of businessmen and women, whose shops are located in the Alakuko and Dalemo areas, which are border communities in Lagos and Ogun states, were surprised on Wednesday as hoodlums demolished the properties. Some of the shops were said to have been robbed and the goods in them looted in an operation…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to multiple social media reports, men of the Nigerian Army and customs officials allegedly raided ‘okirika’ shops in Yaba, Lagos. According to eyewitnesses, the incident occurred on Sunday December 29, at Popo Street in Yaba, Lagos, while most owners of the shops are away for the Christmas holiday. The officers were…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium in the early hours of Sunday on Freedom Street in the Ebute Meta area of Lagos State as hoodlums stormed the area, burgled shops and vandalised several vehicles. It was gathered that the hoodlums, numbering about 100, were returning from a party around 2am when they attacked the community….
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Some persons associated with the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) have gone on rampage closing shops belonging to foreigners in commercial hubs in Kumasi in the Ashanti region. The closure that begun from Alarbar spread to Adhye and Kejetia Wednesday. The Ashanti Regional President of the Nigerian Association of Traders Union…
