LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria’s vice president Atiku Abubakar Thursday called for the investigation of the alleged secret burial of over 1,000 troops of the Nigerian Army. “I cannot fathom that in the space of a year, 1000 of these great patriots were killed and buried secretly without their families being told. I hesitate to […]
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Activities were brought to a halt Thursday morning as street boys popularly known as ‘area boys’ clashed with truck drivers at Coconut bus stop, Olodi-Apapa, Lagos. No fewer than four people were reported to have sustained injuries as a result of the fracas which an eye witness said was occurred as a result […]
By Joe Parkinson LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At the northern edge of this city’s sprawling military base, a vast field of churned soil conceals the hidden toll of a deadly offensive by the allies of Islamic State. After dark, the bodies of soldiers are covertly transported from a mortuary that at times gets so crowded the […]
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Akwa Ibom state government has revealed that it had imported 2,000 cattle from Brazil as part of efforts to produce sufficient meats in the state. The government also said it took the decision with a view to increasing protein intake for Akwa Ibom people and ensuring food sustainability in the state. […]
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 16-year-old girl, Chinyere, has narrated how suspected Fulani herdsmen abducted her and other co-travellers at the Okada junction on the Benin-Ore Expressway, Edo State. The victim said she was held for five days as the herdsmen tortured the men in the group with sticks, guns and cutlasses. The Abia State indigene […]
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The jailed head of Cameroon’s anglophone separatists, Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, has launched a hunger strike to protest the “disappearance” of co-detainees following prison riots, one of his lawyers said Thursday. Ayuk Tabe, self-proclaimed president of “Ambazonia”, the breakaway state the separatists want to create in the central African country, stopped eating […]
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday fixed Aug.21 for parties to adopt their written addresses in the petition challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari’s in the Feb.23 general election. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar are contesting the outcome […]
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the drivers of Airport Car Hire Association of Nigeria (ACHAN), Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, Mr. Adeniyi Olayinka, has returned $2,400 (about N888,000) and an international passport forgotten by a passenger in his car to the passenger. Olayinka told journalists at the airport that he discovered the items in […]
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-There have been news making rounds that the ‘Kenyan Jesus’ who was invited by a pastor to preach in the country has been deported. This is false. Identified as “Michael Job”, the “modern-day Jesus” is an American preacher and actor. He is in Kenya attending an interdenominational Christian event as a guest […]
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have released a Korean medical doctor, who had been in captivity for seven months. The doctor had been working at the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State when he was abducted. Also released were 250 people, who are from different parts of the state as well as neighbouring states. Briefing […]
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