LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than fourteen passengers were reported dead and forty injured when a trailer conveying passengers and cows from Illela LGA of Sokoto State heading to Lagos State hit a stationed truck parked by the shoulder of the road side at Dada village, Koko/Besse LGA of Kebbi State. The fatal accident occurred…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos Police Command on Wednesday prevented violence after a truck crushed a masquerade to death in Mushin. The incident occurred along Isolo road around 2:30pm. It was learnt the truck laden with plywood crushed the masquerade around the market axis. The masquerade was said to have died on the…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A middle-aged man, yet to be identified, was crushed to death by a truck that fell off Ojuelegba Bridge in Lagos on Saturday night. The man was driving a Honda Accord when the truck fell on his car. Rescue agents brought him out of the wreckage, dead. According to witnesses, it took…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people have been confirmed dead in an accident involving a truck and commercial motorcycle (Okada) in Lagos State. The PUNCH gathered that the unidentified truck was carrying sand when the accident occurred on Tuesday morning around Eleganza Bus Stop in the Lekki area of Lagos. The truck has since been vandalised…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State on Wednesday as eight persons allegedly died in a crash involving a truck which rammed into four motorcycles at the Sheriff bus stop, Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area. Eyewitnesses told PUNCH Metro that the crash occurred around 10am as the truck…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A truck lost control in Imo on Saturday and ran into a market, killing at least 10 women. The accident happened at Nkwommiri Market, near Nwangele River in Umuozu community of Imo. The incident which happened around 12 noon at the intersection between Anara- Orlu and Amaigbo – Amaraku Expressway left many…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Niger says 23 persons lost their lives when a truck fully loaded with dozens of cows and 45 persons, skidded off the road and somersaulted into a bush. The accident occurred at about 0500 hours along Bokani -Makera road in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state, according…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An articulated truck belonging to PHCN has reportedly rammed into #EndSARS Protesters destroying their cars in the process, NEWS DIRECT can report. According to one of the protesters, the trailer which is believed to have been driven by thugs ran into the cars in an attempt to use the Lekki toll which…
