LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, has said that the recent television interview granted the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, in which he took responsibility for the cancellation of Captain Hosa Okunbo’s maritime security contract, validates Governor Godwin Obaseki’s letter that…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A 72-year-old male passenger died on an Air Peace Flight P47182 from Calabar to Abuja Flight P47182 on Friday. The deceased allegedly had a case of paraplegia due to spinal injury since 2019 was travelling for medical check-up in Abuja. He became very sick mid-flight and upon arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Entrepreneurs in oil-rich Nigeria are finding it difficult to weather the economic fallout of the deadly coronavirus pandemic and a plummeting currency. Amid the lockdown a dispute between Russia and Saudi Arabia sent the price of the fossil fuel tumbling, dragging down the value of the Nigerian currency with it. With the…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-As many as 19 people are feared to have lost their lives after a boat mishap in Apapa, Lagos state. Multiple online reports claim that the death toll from the incident has risen as high as 19, while one person has been rescued. In a video sighted by LailasNews, a middle aged…
By Tai Emeka Obasi LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-For those who were not yet in secondary schools when HE Peter Obi became governor, you might truly have physically missed the beginning. I had already graduated from the university over a decade before he started campaigning towards 2003 gubernatorial election. But I didn’t give him a thought…
The governor, who said this while receiving Muslim leaders at Government House, in Benin City, expressed his readiness to stand with the people, defend their interests and develop the state. Obaseki said: “I am not afraid of any man but God. I know the gang up is to provoke me and my supporters but we…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine people have died in India from drinking alcohol-based hand sanitiser after liquor shops in their town were closed due to virus restrictions, police said on Friday. The group lost consciousness after consuming a “high quantity” of hand sanitiser mixed with water or soda, Siddharth Kaushal, police superintendent for Kurichedu town in…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja reacted for the first time on the allegations of corruption leveled against the leaderships of some Federal Government Agencies and Commissions. These commissions include the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The president, who spoke after observing his…