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 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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….
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal government said on Thursday that the price of data has been reduced by more than 50 percent following a directive that the Nigerian Communications commission, NCC, should put in place measures to that effect. Accordingly, the price of data of 1GB has been reduced from 1000 naira to 487 naira…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Taskforce Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, on Thursday, collapsed in court. Maina collapsed in the dock when his counsel, Anayo Adibe, was addressing the court on his no-case submission before Justice Okon Abang handling his trial. The court had to rise for five minutes to enable…