By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of the Yenagoa and it’s environs have continued to groan under a continued black out and power outage that has lasted over ten days. More worrisome to residents is the decision of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) to keep mum over the continued black out. Some…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Commissioner for Youth Development, Chief Collins Cocodia, has affirmed that the state government is collaborating with the African Tide Union (ATU) , an organization based in Germany for the empowerment of the youths by involving them in different training programme. Cocodia who said no fewer than five thousand youths have…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.N. refugee and migration agencies say the bodies of at least 30 Somalis and Ethiopians were found drowned this week off the Yemeni coast near Aden. They are believed to have been traveling in a smuggler’s boat. Survivors say the overcrowded boat was packed with 152 Somalis and Ethiopians heading for…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 27-year-old Nigerian man suspected of being a member of Boko Haram and killing people in Nigeria during attacks on schools and a village has been arrested in Germany, the federal prosecutor said on Friday. The man, named as Amaechi Fred O., was detained on Wednesday in Bavaria and a day later…
LAGOSJANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 42-year-old woman has died of shock after her son’s arrest by some Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) operatives. .According to a report by TheNation, Asiata Adeyanju slumped and died close to her 9, Ajenifuja Street, Ilupeju, Lagos home on Wednesday night. She was said to be hypertensive. .It was gathered that the…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Yoruba Council of Elders has described as sad and unfortunate the distribution of President Muhammadu Buhari 2019 re-election campaign materials by the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, during the Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. The PUNCH reported that shortly before the commencement of the meeting presided over by President…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has reacted to the death of the immediate past Chairman of Lagos State Sports Commission, Deji Tinubu. Tinubu , a former board member of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, was reported to have slumped and died while playing football at a retreat organised for Lagos Commissioners and…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected kidnapping kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, has filed a fresh suit against the police, seeking the release of 25 Mack trucks, which he claimed were seized from him, Punchng reports. His lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, contended in the suit that the trucks were seized without a court order, saying that the seizure…