LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Arsenal goalkeeper Alex Manninger has died at the age of 48 after his car was struck by a train. Police said the incident happened at about 08:20 local time (07:20 BST) at a level crossing near Salzburg. Manninger made 64 appearances for Arsenal between 1997 and 2002, winning the Premier League…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Comrade M. B. Muhammad, one of the victims who was abducted from a Kaduna-bound train in 2021, has narrated his encounter with one of his kidnappers at a mosque in Kaduna State. According to him, the encounter happened a few days ago when he stopped at a Shema Mosque near Bakin Ruwa…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A viral video posted on X.com on Tuesday has captured the moment a train collided with a car in the Iju-Fagba area of Lagos State. The vehicle, a Sienna, was reportedly loaded with bags of rice. As of the time of filing this report, no casualties have been confirmed. Recall that a…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Google plans to train 20,000 Nigerian women and youth in digital skills and provide a grant of 1.2 billion naira ($1.6 million) to help the government’s create one million digital jobs in the country, its Africa executives said on Tuesday. Nigeria plans to create digital jobs for its teeming youth population, Vice…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hadi Sirika, the minister of aviation, on Thursday, revealed that personnel of the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) have been instructed “to move quickly” to probe the fatal rail accident that happened in Lagos on Monday. POLITICS NIGERIA had reported how two people died and several others were seriously injured when a…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When Luis Sarmiento and his grandson went out early to buy bread one morning in March, they came across a shocking scene: A macabre message left by Ecuador’s drug traffickers in the form of two headless bodies. “I covered my grandson’s eyes, went upstairs, and I don’t know anything else,” recalled Sarmiento,…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Ibrahim Wakkala, was among travellers attacked on the Abuja-Kaduna train by terrorists on Monday night. As gathered, the former deputy governor sustained gunshot injuries during the attack. He was also among the victims who sustained injuries visited by the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected bandit terrorists have detonated bombs on the railtrack of Abuja-Kaduna train and successfully immobilised it. Credible sources confirmed the attack to Pointblanknews.com on Monday night, saying the attack occurred at a point between Katari and Rijana. One of the passengers who confirmed the incident in a telephone call said the attackers…
