LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)— The man seeking to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called on residents of poorer areas south of the capital to protest his rule, as three blackouts in less than a month have virtually shut down the country. Many schools and businesses have been closed for five days. “We will continue to…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Daily Trust staff Ahmad Garba was kidnapped on his way from Abuja to Kaduna on March 7, 2019. Here, he shares his harrowing eight-day ordeal in the kidnappers’ den. Daily Trust: How were you kidnapped? Ahmad Garba: It happened on Thursday March 7, 2019. After we finished production in the office, I…
LAGOS MACH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unidentified female student lost her senses on Saturday morning in Lagos. The fair-skinned lady is a student of a polytechnic in Nasarawa State. According to eyewitnesses, the lady emerged from the Country Club area in Ikeja GRA, Lagos, and started talking to herself. “Nobody suspected anything at first as she was…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Lagos said they have arrested a computer science graduate who allegedly defrauded Nigerians by operating a fake Facebook account of the General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries. The Spokesman for Lagos State Police Command, DSP Bala Elkana, said in a statement on Thursday that the suspect…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burundi has banned the BBC from the country and taken its radio off the airwaves, after what the government said was the broadcaster’s “false’’ reporting on secret torture centres. “The licence to operate the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio Station is withdrawn,’’ Nestor Bankumukunzi, the head of the National Communication Council, said…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Leicester City forward was not called up for the Super Eagles’ March games, with Rohr questioning his seriousness Brendan Rodgers has jumped to the defence of Kelechi Iheanacho after the Leicester City forward was criticised by Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr during the international break. The 22-year-old has come in for criticisms…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Investigators have released the preliminary reports from the recordings of the black box recovered from the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 that killed 157, among them 36 Kenyans. US-based Wall Street Journal (WSR) on Friday reported that a suspect anti-stall system was activated shortly before the plane nosedived into the ground, causing…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has dismantled a six-man methamphetamine syndicate. The members of the syndicate were arrested in connection with a total of 309 kilograms of ephedrine and a clandestine laboratory. The arrested suspects are Okeke Chukwunwike Celestine, Ezeagba Paul Sunday and Ike Chukwuma Samson. Others are Eze Christopher Ikechukwu,…