LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The pontiff arrived late for his weekly address in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday explaining that he had been stuck in an elevator in the Vatican for 25 minutes and had to be freed by firefighters. “I have to beg your pardon,” the smiling pontiff said as he started the address…
Thirteen indigenes of Niger Delta States of Bayelsa, Delta, Imo and Rivers have won the 2019 Shell Petroleum Development Company Joint Venture scholarship for a one-year master’s degree in three top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom. The latest awards bring the total number of beneficiaries to 92 since the inception of the scheme in 2010….
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- Seeking the way forward in the fight against corruption and insecurity dominated the discussion at a one day conference organized by Scroll Report Online paper, in Sheraton Ikeja, Lagos on August 29. All the speakers including security experts called for a collective effort in tackling insecurity and corruption, which are the…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Friday said that at least 25,000 candidates participated in the institution’s Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which ended on Friday. An official in the admissions office of the university, who spoke anonymously, made disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. According…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- A photojournalist with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Ibrahim Bashir has been detained by soldiers at the venue of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) convocation in Kaduna. The soldiers also seized the photojournalist’s camera and took him to the guardroom. Daily Trust gathered that the soldiers, who detained…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The Islamic Movement in Nigeria may be in for a new ordeal as the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the arrest of all identified Shi’ite leaders across the country. He has also directed a team of special police to dismantle the structures of the IMN in the country immediately….
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Three University of Lagos students have invented a vehicular road advance electronic flood level caution device for detection of water levels on major roads. The inventors are postgraduate students of the Physics Department of the university. One of the researchers, Mr Olufemi Ilori, told NAN on the sideline of its exhibition in…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine Chinese students who were returning to the U.S. as undergraduate students at Arizona State University were detained at Los Angeles International Airport, university officials said. The students were detained by Customs and Border Protection officials “over the last week,” the university said in a statement Friday. The students were “denied admission…