LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents are fleeing Michika and Madagali areas after Boko Haram insurgents razed several villages, and killed scores of people. Hundreds of villagers from the affected villages as well as neighbouring ones are currently fleeing their homes to Gulak, Mubi and other towns. Boko Haram reportedly destroyed property in Kuda-Kaya village in a […]
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LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The peace and tranquility hitherto witnessed by residents of Amukoko, in the densely populated Ajegunle area of Lagos, has been replaced with fear, owing to an ongoing gang war among some youths in the area, which has already claimed 10 lives. At the moment, helpless residents are wearing expressions of fear, sadness […]
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LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa-based journalist Jones Abiri has once again been arrested by men of the Department of State Services (DSS). Abiri was arrested at Ayabowei Plaza in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. SaharaReporters understands that the men stormed the venue with a white Hilux and black SUV while Abiri was discussing with his colleagues […]
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LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)— The man seeking to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called on residents of poorer areas south of the capital to protest his rule, as three blackouts in less than a month have virtually shut down the country. Many schools and businesses have been closed for five days. “We will continue to […]
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Daily Trust staff Ahmad Garba was kidnapped on his way from Abuja to Kaduna on March 7, 2019. Here, he shares his harrowing eight-day ordeal in the kidnappers’ den. Daily Trust: How were you kidnapped? Ahmad Garba: It happened on Thursday March 7, 2019. After we finished production in the office, I […]
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LAGOS MACH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unidentified female student lost her senses on Saturday morning in Lagos. The fair-skinned lady is a student of a polytechnic in Nasarawa State. According to eyewitnesses, the lady emerged from the Country Club area in Ikeja GRA, Lagos, and started talking to herself. “Nobody suspected anything at first as she was […]
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LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Lagos said they have arrested a computer science graduate who allegedly defrauded Nigerians by operating a fake Facebook account of the General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries. The Spokesman for Lagos State Police Command, DSP Bala Elkana, said in a statement on Thursday that the suspect […]
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LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burundi has banned the BBC from the country and taken its radio off the airwaves, after what the government said was the broadcaster’s “false’’ reporting on secret torture centres. “The licence to operate the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio Station is withdrawn,’’ Nestor Bankumukunzi, the head of the National Communication Council, said […]
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Leicester City forward was not called up for the Super Eagles’ March games, with Rohr questioning his seriousness Brendan Rodgers has jumped to the defence of Kelechi Iheanacho after the Leicester City forward was criticised by Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr during the international break. The 22-year-old has come in for criticisms […]
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LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Investigators have released the preliminary reports from the recordings of the black box recovered from the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 that killed 157, among them 36 Kenyans. US-based Wall Street Journal (WSR) on Friday reported that a suspect anti-stall system was activated shortly before the plane nosedived into the ground, causing […]
