LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Zamfara state government says it has uncovered a 119-year-old (name withheld) on its payroll even as it planned to drag a total of 108 civil servants to court for receiving double salary in different ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Rabi’u Garba, disclosed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A campaign has started to seek justice for a student of LASU, Favour Daley, who was allegedly killed and eaten by her friend and his mom with the help of a prophet for ritual. According to Omojola Omotayo, who shared the story to call for #JusticeForFavour, the 22-year-old final year student of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The unsuccessful Mpape, Abuja robbery suspects that were arrested yesterday after being circled in First bank for some hours before police arrived have been paraded and they made shocking revelations. According to media report, the inside man for the Abuja money heist appears to be the branch manager of the First Bank…
LAGOS DECEMBR 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two victims were killed and three others were injured when a gunman opened fire inside a crowded Texas church on Sunday morning before he was shot to death by two armed parishioners, including a security guard, officials told ABC News. The shooting occurred at 10:57 a.m. at the West Freeway Church of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday in Lagos expressed deep concern about Nigeria’s current debt profile and warned the Federal Government against “impending bankruptcy.” Obasanjo was a keynote speaker at the “Why I am Alive” campaign celebration in Lagos on Friday. Nigeria’s external debt, he said, grew by as much as 700 percent…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A heartbroken Nigerian-British woman whose two children and husband drowned at a Costa Del Sol hotel in Spain has said they all knew how to swim, contradicting earlier accounts. Olubunmi Diya instead said she believed ‘something was wrong with the pool’. Olubunmi’s husband Gabriel and children Comfort and Praise-Emmanuel died in the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Jigawa state government says 440 women in Birniwa local government area of the state will be empowered with 1,320 goats under the state goats loan microcredit programme. NAN reports that Ahmed Zubairu, chairman of the goats distribution committee, was speaking in Birniwa on Friday after screening the women for the second…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zambian President Edgar Lungu cut his salary and those of senior cabinet ministers Friday, as higher electricity and fuel prices take effect, his office said. The price of petrol gained 10 percent to 17.62 kwacha ($1.27) per litre on Thursday, while that for diesel fuel rose by 9.6 percent to 15.59 kwacha….