Scores Killed In Operation To Capture Venezuelan Pilot

LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several people, including two police officers, were killed in an operation to capture a helicopter pilot who bombed Venezuela’s Supreme Court during anti-government protests last year, the interior ministry said Monday. A ministry statement said members of a “terrorist cell” were killed in a fierce gunbattle, and five were captured, but did…

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Ebonyi: Medical Workers Flee Hospital As Lassa Fever Kill Two Doctors

LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a pandemonium at the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, FETHA, at the early hours of Monday as doctors and nurses fled the hospital over the outbreak of lassa fever in the state. It was gathered that this followed the death of two doctors and a nurse on Sunday.http://dailypost.ng/2018/01/14/panic-ebonyi-lassa-fever-kills-2-resident-doctors/‎ Meanwhile, Ebonyi State…

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Nigeria Vice President Osinbajo Flies Out To US Today

LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s vice-president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will leave the country on Monday night for the United States of America. According to a tweet by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo will deliver the inaugural Havard University’s historic ‘Africa Rising’ lecture. The vice-president is expected to return to Abuja…

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Shithole: Nigeria Summons US Ambassador As UN, AU Condemn Trump’s Statement

LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has summoned Stuart Symington, United States ambassador to Nigeria, over Donald Trump’s usage of a demeaning term to describe African nations. The US president is reported to have questioned why the US would want to have immigrants from “shithole countries” such as Haiti and African nations. The comment was…

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