LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Victoria, the daughter of a senior journalist in Nigeria, Senan Murray, has gone missing. Victoria, a 17-year-old student of Holy Child College, Ikoyi, Lagos State, was last seen as she left for school two weeks ago. She lives not too far from the school with her parents at Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos….
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The number of people with dementia worldwide is expected to triple in the next 30 years, according to the World Health Organisation. The organisation disclosed this in a statement announcing new guidelines to tackle the ailment, on its website on Tuesday. “We need to do everything we can to reduce our risk…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)–A Kano State high court Wednesday declared the appointment and the installation of four new emirs by the Kano State government as null and void. It ordered a return to status quo pending the hearing of the suit against the appointment of the emirs filed by one Rabiu Salihu Garwzo. Counsel to…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and other agencies involved in the probe of Senate President Bukola Saraki over corruption allegations. Saraki on Friday filed two separate fundamental rights enforcement suits before the court to challenge the decision of the EFCC to seize…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Lagos State Command intercepted a 20 foot truck MAN Diesel with Registration No. JJJ 959 XN laden with 150 bags of Cannabis Sativa with the street value worth N20 million naira weighing 2.139 tons concealed in fake compartment of the truck. Two…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Tuesday dissociated the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) from a document calling for the overthrow of the Muhammadu Buhari democratically-elected administration. Navy Capt. Muhammed Wabi, Deputy Director of Defence Information accused a group, “Nigerian Continuity and Progress (NCP)’’ as being behind the document. Wabi alleged that the…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has said that Ondo State is ready to tap into the estimated $145bn medical marijuana market. He warned that since Ondo is “the hotbed of cannabis cultivation,” the state would be short-changing itself if it doesn’t tap into the “legal marijuana market” whose estimated value has been projected to…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), has warned Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) that it will be putting national security under threat should it go ahead with its threat to demolish no fewer than 7,000 masts across the country. It was alleged that Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has threatened…