By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Academic activities were paralysed in public primary and secondary schools in Bayelsa following strike by the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) over outstanding salaries. Primary school teachers are being owed eight months salary backlog while secondary school teacher’s arreas stand at four months. There was…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Due to high cost of transport fares as a result of fuel scarcity in Kwara state, students of University Of Ilorin (UNLORIN), Ilorin, Kwara State has resorted to use trailers as means of transport. A survey conducted revealed that a litre of petrol now sells for between N300 and N400 in the…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Benue Government says it will bury victims of the January 1 attacks on Thursday, January 11. 73 persons were gunned down by unknown assailants who invaded five villages in Guma and Logo Local Governments on new year’s day. Several others were injured while 50,000 persons were displaced. Governor Samuel Ortom announced…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command says it has uncovered an apartment in Ejigbo area of Lagos, suspected to be used as transit camp for child trafficking. Six children, aged between three and 10, were found in the one-room apartment. The custodian of the children, one Comfort Awanaesan, was also apprehended in the…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s president on Tuesday blamed clashes between Muslim cattle herders and Christian farmers on the clamor for land in the face of a population rapidly approaching 200 million people. At least 83 people have been killed in the communal violence since Dec. 31. Muhammadu Buhari, who called for calm, has already ordered…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A flight attendant in India has been arrested after she allegedly tried to smuggle almost $500,000 out of the country. $100 bills were found stacked in wads when authorities searched the baggage of 25-year-old Devshi Kulshreshtha, who had concealed the cash below cosmetics and shoes. Video footage released by authorities shows the…
http://ift.tt/2CU1ntj LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian military said on Thursday it had rescued one of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from the town of Chibok in 2014, one of the world’s most notorious kidnappings in recent years. The abduction of more than 270 students sparked international condemnation and heavy criticism of the Nigerian authorities…
http://ift.tt/2ArMpb0 President Buhari LAGOS JAUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s supporters got a boost on Wednesday when a key ally of the elderly leader announced he would head a group campaigning for him to seek re-election next year. Buhari, 75, has not publicly said whether he will take part in the February 2019…