Archive for: December, 2019

NDDC Accused Of Abandoning Postgraduate Foreign Scholarship Students

LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Some beneficiaries of the Niger Delta Development Commission’s postgraduate foreign scholarship programme have accused the agency of abandoning them while studying abroad. The beneficiaries alleged that the commission had refused to pay their tuition, adding that the grants awarded to them when embarking on their various programmes abroad were also not paid. […]

Gunmen Abduct Six-Year-Old Son Of Bayelsa State Commissioner In Midnight Raid

LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGRS)-Unknown Gunmen numbering six  stormed the Opolo official Commisioner’s Quarters last night and Kidnapped a six-year-old  son of  Bayelsa State Commisioner for Water Resources  Hon. Nengi Talbot Tubonah Eyewitness account revealed that the gunmen broke into the house of the commissioner for water resources Hon. Nengi Talbot Tubonah and was asking were […]

Veteran Yoruba Actor, Alabi Yellow Passes On

LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran Yoruba actor, Samuel Akinpelu aka Alabi Yellow died today in his home in Ikorodu, Lagos. It should be recalled that the actor had been afflicted with a stroke in March shortly after the demise of his wife. However, the actor had got a lifeline of N10m from a popular philanthropist, Reverend […]

Detention Of Sowore And Practice Of True Democracy

By Young Erhuirhobo LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Democracy is adjudged as the best type of government in every part of the world because it is more acceptable, accessible and available to the common populace in a country. Nigeria as a country has tried this type of government for number of types immediately after independence in 1960 […]

Christmas Party: 11 Dead, 300 Hospitalised After Drinking Coconut Wine

LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than eleven  people have been killed and more than three hundred  treated in hospital after drinking coconut wine in the Philippines, including some who were celebrating at a Christmas party, health and local authorities said on Monday. The poisoning occurred in Laguna and Quezon, two provinces south of Manila, and […]

Nigerians Misses One Key Ingredient This Year In Christmas Dinner

LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians may have to do without their favorite delicacy this Christmas. Jollof, a mixture of rice, tomatoes and spices, is practically a national dish in Nigeria. Africa’s most-populous country with almost 200 million people. It’s particularly coveted by the poor at Christmas and other festive periods, when increased demand for its ingredients […]

Man Butchers Two Children Like Chicken, Inflicts Serious Machete Cut On Third

LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Therewas horror at Egwuagu village in Okpoitumo Community of Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, on December 16, 2019, when one Mr. Chinasa Ogbaga, allegedly killed his two children and inflicted severe machete cuts on another. Ogbaga was said to have brutally murdered the kids with a cutlass that fateful Monday […]

Gunmen Abduct Nigeria Football Club Owner Along Okene-Lokoja Road

LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Saturday kidnapped the proprietor of Dynamite Force Football Club based in Iyamho, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, Bernard Jomah. He was reportedly kidnapped along the Okenne-Lokoja Road in Kogi State between 7pm and 8pm on Friday on his way from Abuja. Family sources who confirmed the incident […]

Detained Ex-AGF Adoke Falls Sick, Unable To Respond To EFCC Interrogations

LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), is down with an illness in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Adoke is said to be having spinal pain. Recall that he was arrested by the agency  on Thursday in Abuja, moments after he returned […]

Tragedy: Bride, Twenty One Others Died In Auto-Crash

LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGRS)-Late Alhaji Abdullahi Buwa was among the Fulani elders that led 21 persons from various Fulani settlements in Dutsin-Ma Local Government Area of Katsina State to convey a newly wedded bride, Daharatu, to Yola, the Adamawa State capital. Alhaji Buwa was also billed to receive and convey home another bride, Nafisatu, from […]

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