LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A stowaway has been found alive hidden inside a plane’s landing gear after a two-hour flight to Paris. The unidentified man was found inside an Air Algerie plane which had flown from the northern Algerian city of Oran to the French capital. The total flight time was two hours and 12 minutes,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The three men were picked up Monday by Spain’s Maritime Rescue Services from the rudder of the Alithini II ship. After displaying acute symptoms of disorientation, dehydration and hypothermia, they were all taken to a hospital on the island of Gran Canaria. Two of the stowaways have been helped and put back…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dutch police say they have found a stowaway alive in the wheel section of a plane that landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport from South Africa. Flights from Johannesburg to Amsterdam take about 11 hours, with the cargo plane believed to have made one stop, in Nairobi, Kenya. It is very unusual for…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officials discovered four persons hiding under a Crude oil vessel on its way to Spain from Lagos State. The four men, who were clearly stowaway, were willing to risk their lives on the journey expected to last four days. The photos of the four people sitting in the rudder area of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A stowaway who clung to the undercarriage of a jumbo jet and survived an 11-hour, 5,639-mile flight from South Africa to London has spoken for the first time of his terrifying journey. He recalled how he emerged from a coma months later to learn his best friend had fallen 5,000ft from the…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four Nigerian stowaways arrested in the UK in 2018 December have been jailed for a total of seven years. While on the ship, they hurled faeces at elite SBS sailors and vowed to infect them with HIV during a tense stand-off in the Thames Estuary. The stowaways also threatened to kill crew…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWRANGERS)-Four stowaways armed with iron bars are threatening the crew of a cargo ship off the English coast and demanding to be taken ashore, a spokesman for the shipowner said. The spokesman for Grimaldi Lines, Paul Kyprianou, said they were discovered four days ago after the Grande Tema ship had set sail…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than ten stowaway were arrested in two ships in Apapa, Lagos. The ships were MSC Paola and Maersk Chennia in Lagos. The Comptroller, Lagos Seaports and Marine Command, Modupe Anyalechi, while parading the suspects at Apapa before newsmen said, “Five of the stowaways were apprehended on Sunday at 4pm by…