LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A rickety passenger train veered off the tracks in the Agege, Mangoro area of Lagos in the early hours of Thursday, January 10, 2019, with casualty figures yet to be ascertained at the time of filing this story. Social media users say traffic along the Ikeja-Along—Iyana Ipaja axis has come to a…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Graduates from Bayelsa State have cried out over the alleged hijack of the state government’s recruitment exercise of 1,000 unemployed youth into the civil service. The graduates claim that politicians have truncated the process and shared the slots among themselves. Under the leadership of the Bayelsa State Graduates Forum (BSGF), the…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President Abubakar Saraki has paid N16.9 million salary arrears to workers of Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, the chairman of the council, Muyiwa. He said this was in fulfilment of Saraki’s pledge to help settle salary arrears owed workers of some local government areas in the state . Oladipo…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In what seems like an outburst of helplessness, betrayal and disappointment, Joshua Melaye, the eldest of Sen Dino Melaye’s children express his disappointment in how his Dad is being vilified and drag across the length and breath of social media. Popular Instagram Influencer Tunde ednut shared a video of the ikorodu Boiz…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday appointed Bismarck Rewane as head of newly inaugurated Technical Advisory Committee on the implementation of a National Minimum Wage. President Buhari at the inauguration which took place at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja, said that after the new minimum wage has been passed into law, government will…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Twenty-two members of the academia from 12 Nigerian universities have begun research attachments at The Shell Petroleum Development Companies of Nigeria (SPDC) in several fields of study in the latest phase of the sabbatical and internship programme of the SPDC Joint Venture which was introduced in 1980. The number represents 13…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kinsmen of former president Goodluck Jonathan have raised the alarm over what they called manifest danger to the electoral fortunes of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State with Jonathan and his wife backing opposition candidates against PDP candidates in the national and state legislative elections. Jonathan has however, dismissed the…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In what seems to be a suspected armed robbery attack, an FRSC driver was killed in an official patrol vehicle along Abuja- Kaduna express way at about 20 kilometres to the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday, 8 January, 2019. In an official statement released by the Corps Public Education Officer, Federal Road…