LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A flash flood swept through the Asokoro–Guzape axis of Abuja on Thursday morning after hours of heavy rainfall. A video shared online by a resident, Prince Adebisi Adetunji, showed torrents of water covering parts of the road, leaving motorists and pedestrians stranded. The flooding caused major disruption to traffic, with vehicles…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of members of the Boko Haram terrorist organisation have been reportedly killed following the flooding that ravaged Borno State on Tuesday, September 10. The flood according to security sources, was caused by the failure of the Alau Dam, which took over the Sambisa Forest known as the terrorists’ stronghold in the…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Rescuers are searching for more than 60 missing people in Nepal after a massive landslide swept two buses into a river. Some spoke of their terrifying ordeal, with one saying he was “thrown out of the window of the bus into the river”. Only three people appeared to have survived the accident,…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A primary six pupil simply identified as Joshua has been swept away by flood in Ikosi, Ketu area of Lagos State. The pupil was returning home from school alongside his colleagues when the tragic incident occurred on Taiwo Street in Ikosi, Ketu, Lagos. Reacting to the tragedy, Joshua’s mother, a fruit seller,…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Parents of a four-year-old boy, Chukwuemeka Okoro, and their neighbours are currently troubled over their inability to retrieve the boy’s body almost one week after he was washed away by a flood in a Lagos community. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened last week Tuesday when Okoro fell into a canal…
.LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Five buildings and other property in Obogoro Town in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have submerged into the Ikoli River following a landslide arising from Coastal Erosion The incident which took place late Saturday night to the early hours of Sunday has displaced several persons as scores of Residents were…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rescue search is ongoing by men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA at 38 Fashola Str of Olabode street Papa Asafa Orile Agege to recover yet to be identified four-year-old child allegedly being swept away by the flood of early morning heavy rainfall in Lagos. According to an eyewitness, the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck residents of Aboru and Iyana-Ipaja in the Alimosho area of Lagos on Saturday as the flood swept away an 11-year-old boy and his rescuer, one Wasiu into a canal linking Aburo and Iyana-Ipaja on Ige Road. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who visited the scene of the accident…