LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,041 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 81,963. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. “1041 new #COVID19 cases Lagos-316 FCT-210 Kaduna-83 Plateau-70 Gombe-56 Oyo-56 Katsina-47 Nasarawa-35 Kano-33 Ogun-21 Rivers-17 Niger-14…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Customs agents at Istanbul Airport scored a huge goal Wednesday against a drug trafficking network when officers discovered cocaine concealed inside portraits of the late Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona. The cocaine shipment – 2.65 kilos worth $227,000 – was being smuggled by a 72-year-old German man who had arrived on a flight…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigerian Ambassador to United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland, Ambassador Adamu Muhammad is dead. He died on Thursday around 9 am in Kaduna at the age of 83 after a long illness and his funeral prayer was performed at Yahaya Road GRA Juma’at Mosque around 1:am. His younger brother, Haruna Alhaji…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr Peter Obi, has urged public office holders in the country to put God ahead in their service to the people, advising them to see their offices as platforms for service to God and man. In his Christmas message,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 26-year-old woman, Hauwa Habibu, who hacked her two children to death in Kano has pleaded not guilty before a magistrate court. Recall that Hauwa, a health worker, killed her two children, Irfan Ibrahim, 6 and Zuhura Ibrahim, 3, and injured a niece, Aisha Sadiq, 10, at Diso Quarters in Gwale Local…
LGAOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A retired journalist from Anambra State, Mr. Mike Oguguo Ndu, alongside other passengers have been kidnapped by suspected bandits at Okene, Kogi state. Mr Ndu, boarded Wazobia commercial bus at Onitsha, to visit his sick wife at Abuja, but his journey was cut short, when he was kidnapped by some bandits who…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is December 24 -the eve of Christmas, but the usual merry of the season is lacking. Usually by this time, the festive feeling is in the air with preparations for Christian faithful’s symbolic celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. There have always been arguments about whether this time of the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bishop of Amichi Diocese, Anglican Communion, Most Rev Ephraim Ikeakor, and the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, have both spoken out against what they described as the high cost of governance and the alarming level of corruption in Nigeria, saying…