LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has undertaken to hire all first-class graduates of Economics from Ebonyi State. The state commissioner for information and orientation, Uchenna Orji, disclosed this on Thursday in Abakiliki during a joint press briefing on the outcome of the state’s weekly executive meeting. Orji who was swapped from the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A commercial motorcycle rider, Kingsley Madukwe, has beaten his wife, Glory Madukwe, to death for refusing to breastfeed her crying one-month-old baby. The incident happened, on Wednesday night, at the Egando, Atan-Ota, area of Ogun State. The traditional ruler (Baale) of the area, Chief Rafiu Gbadamosi reported it to the Police and…
Man LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A religious celebration was marred by tragedy this week as a man participating in a traditional Islamic mourning ritual accidentally beheaded himself. Mohammed Sayum was displaying his prowess at swordsmanship in the Nalanda district of Bihar, in east India, as part of a ritual procession known as the Mourning of Muharram….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Bayelsa State has lamented the difficulties they have faced in their effort to rescue the abducted mother of former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia. Commissioner of Police in the state, Uche Anozia, said this on Friday while giving an update on effort they were making to rescue Mrs Beauty…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A video which has gone viral on social media, captured moment some Pakistani traders engaged in a fight with some South Africans who attacked and looted their stores. Some looters were spotted fleeing with some appliances looted from stores owned by foreigners during the attack which occurred at Witbank on Wednesday September…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, on Friday mourned the passing of renowned academic, Obi Prof. Chukuka Okonjo, describing him as one of the best intellectuals ever to come out of Africa. He spoke shortly after the news of the death of the 91 years old…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ouagadougou (AFP) – West African leaders on Saturday announced a billion-dollar plan to fight the rising problem of jihadist violence in the region, at a summit in Burkina Faso. The plan, to be funded from 2020 to 2024, was announced at end of the Economic Community Summit of West African States in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The White House announced Saturday that Hamza bin Laden , the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, was killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. A statement issued in President Donald Trump’s name gave no further details, such…