LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGRS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has cut short his trip to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as he returned to Abuja Tuesday night, a day ahead of schedule. Investigations revealed that President’s decision to round hastily round off his official engagements in Dubai might not be unconnected with ravaging insecurity in Zamfara, Kaduna…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Justice Taiwo Taiwo has withdrawn from the suit filed by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State in respect of his Certificate of Return as a Senator-elect. The embattled Governor had gone to court seeking an order compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A cleric and eight other persons have been sentenced to six months imprisonment by an Aramoko Ekiti Magistrate’s Court for failure to provide toilet facilities in their houses. The convicts were also jailed for other sanitation offences like practising open defecation and refusing to provide waste bins within their vicinities. Out of…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anambra State House of Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill to control excessive burial and funeral ceremonial activities in the state. The bill which was sponsored by House member representing Anaocha 2 Constituency, Hon. Charles Ezeani, was passed after it had been considered at the committee level. According to the bill, it…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 200 Level student at Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, Habibu Abubakar Nakasari, has lost his two hands to some men who attempted to dispossess him of his motorcycle. Habibu, who is studying English Language at the institution, suffered the attack in the early hours of Sunday. The undergraduate was allegedly accosted in…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man identified as Leopoldo Scalici, has been arrested after he killed a Nigerian sex worker over poor performance in Italy. In his confessional statement, the suspect said he smashed the victims head with a bench vise, because he was angry that she didn’t perform well during their sex romp. The deceased’s…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State will, on Thursday, April 18 speak on challenges facing Nigeria’s economy and the way out at the second annual lecture of Freedom Online, an online newspaper. Fayemi, sworn-in for a second term as governor of the Fountain of Knowledge in October 2018, will speak on the…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)— Speaking at a high-level dialogue in Washington D.C. on the sidelines of the World Bank-IMF Spring meetings, the President of the African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina, said “It is time to turn around the declining investments of the U.S. in Africa. As the world’s private sector leader, the United States has…