LAGOS JULY 3RD(NEWSRANGERS)-One person died while over 100 houses were damaged in Daura, hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina State, after heavy rainstorm on Sunday. Some of the affected areas within Daura include: GRA, Dunu, Tsame and Kalgo. The Director of the Local Education and Social Services, Abubakar Mashi, who conducted officials of the…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGRS)-A plot to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from seeking re-election on account of age and other excuses has been uncovered, The Nation learnt yesterday. Some senior lawyers have been engaged “to embarrass the President” ahead of next year’s election, a source in the Presidency said, pleading not to be named because he…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal judge on Monday determined the U.S. government is violating its own rules regarding the treatment of people seeking asylum. Judge James Boasberg issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to stop what opponents called the arbitrary detention of legitimate asylum seekers. The case in question continues,…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Enugu State says it has rescued Pa Michael Obi, father of Mikel Obi, Captain of the Super Eagles, from the kidnappers’ den in a community in the state. The Command’s Spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday evening in Enugu. Amaraizu said the…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmad, on Monday dumped All Progressives Congress (APC), saying that, the party should not be trusted to rule beyond 2019. Baba-Ahmed who is also a one-time INEC Secretary however clarified that his decision to dump APC has nothing to do with his principal,…
LAGOSJULY D (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African woman is recovering in hospital after being discovered alive in a mortuary fridge. The woman was taken to Carletonville morgue, in Gauteng province, having been declared dead by paramedics following a road accident. Ambulance company Distress Alert said she had shown “no form of life”, South Africa’s TimesLive website reports….
By Amos Okioma in Yenogoa LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Bayelsa State has accused Joint Task Military Force (JTF) deployed to protect oil facilities in the Niger Delta against illegal refineries for being responsible for the scarcity of kerosene in the state. They said the scarcity of kerosene was sequel to raids by the joint…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWRANGERS)-A man who claimed his wife died a couple of years ago, got the shocker of his life when he spotted his ‘wife’ in Lagos with another man who was taking her somewhere on a bike. The man identified as Okechukwu James Uwa from Ezzagbo in Ebonyi state said he was travelling…