Archive for: December, 2020

Scores Feared Dead As Petrol Tanker Explodes In Ondo

LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)- No fewer than  12 people were feared dead in a fatal road accident in Akungba Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State when a petrol tanker lost control due to brake failure and rammed into some vehicles on Friday evening. The tanker was said to have exploded […]

Court Convicts Ex- Polytechnic Rector For Defrauded Students Of N1.1m

LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo, a former rector of Enugu Polytechnic has been sent to to prison for scamming his students. Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu handed over the sentence on Thursday. Nwankwo was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on […]

Stolen Ogun State House Of Assembly Mace Recovered In Lagos Bush

LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The stolen mace at the Ogun State House of Assembly has been recovered in Lagos State, the police said on Friday. According to a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, the mace was recovered around the Abule Ado area of Lagos. “The police operatives […]

Peter Obi Makes Case For Physically Challenged, Urges Nigerians To Show Love, Support

LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has stressed importance of society to show love and support to physically challenged persons, while calling on the government to run an all-inclusive governance and make policies that will help the physically challenged to live […]

Wealthy Nigerians Buying Citizenship Overseas To Escape Insecurity, Hardship

LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Every year an increasing number of Nigerians flee poverty and unrest at home. Now, rich Nigerians are planning their escape too. And they’re taking their money with them. Dapo has spent too long at home in Lagos, Nigeria. Back in October, protests against the SARS police unit kept him from going to […]

Lagos State University Increases Tuition By 168% For New Students

LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State University has increased tuition of new students by 168 per cent. Our correspondent gathered that new students of the university would pay N67,048.50 as against N25,000 previously paid. When contacted on the telephone, the spokesperson for LASU, Adekoya Ademola, confirmed the increment of tuition for new students. He, however, clarified […]

Suspected Bandits Slaughter Sixteen Travellers Along Abuja-Kaduna Highway

LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than  sixteen  travellers have been killed by unknown gunmen on Wednesday along Abuja-Kaduna expressway on their way back to Kano from a business trip. It was learnt that the sixteen travelers , from Dambatta local government, were conveyed in a private vehicle and met their untimely death on the Abuja-Kaduna […]

Last Minute Rush: Trump Lines Up Five Condemn Inmates For Execution

LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As President Donald Trump’s days in the White House wane, his administration is racing through a string of federal executions. Five executions are scheduled before President-elect Joe Biden’s 20 January inauguration – breaking with an 130-year-old precedent of pausing executions amid a presidential transition. And if all five take place, Mr Trump […]

Again, Gunmen Invade Buhari’s Home State, Adopt Village Head, Nineteen Others

LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least, 20 people, mostly males, including a village head, Malam Falalu Galadima, have been kidnapped in Katsina State by suspected bandits. According to HumAngle, the villages- Gamji, Ungwar Mato and another all in Faskari Local Government were attacked by the gunmen who operated for about three hours on Tuesday. The bandits, […]

Failed Marriage Plan: Lady Sets Lover With His Mother And Little Child Ablaze

LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On the day Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, was reconciling a Channels Television reporter, Pius Angbo, and his wife, Ifeyinwa, over domestic violence, a lady, now at large, has set her lover ablaze at his Shaahu road residence in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue over his alleged refusal to marry her. […]

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