LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three children, including a four-month-old baby boy, died after eating a packet of noodles on Sunday during a visit to relatives in New Brighton, in the Eastern Cape. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said police are investigating an inquest following the deaths of the three children, Sinothando Ngwendu (11), Olwam Ngwendu (7),…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-General Gilbert Diendere, a key defendant in a trial over the 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, pleaded not guilty at the landmark proceedings on Tuesday. The trial, unfolding in a military court in the capital Ouagadougou, is being avidly followed in a country where Sankara’s brutal death 34…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rapper Oladimeji Aloba aka Mohbad an associate of Naira Marley was arrested over the weekend in Cyprus. The rapper made this known in his Instagram story. “I’ve been stuck at the Cyprus airport prison. The show promoter got me fucked up,” he wrote. Mohbad, who had performed at some shows in the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 25 primary school children were killed when their thatched-roof classrooms caught fire in southern Niger on Monday, the council of ministers said in a statement. Fourteen more children were injured, including five in a critical condition, the statement said. The school is in the town of Maradi, more than…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The air force has arrested Torsabo Solomon, a sergeant, in connection with the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna. Two officers were killed and one other officer was abducted when the NDA was attacked by suspected bandits in August. The development caused an uproar in the country and raised…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has adjusted the timeframe for voting in Tuesday’s supplementary election for Anambra governorship poll in Ihiala local government area. It said voting will hold from 10am-4pm as against the 8:30am-2:30pm timeframe. This was announced on Monday by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and voter Education…
By Joe-Martins Uzodike LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This morning, I had a 30 minutes conversation with Mr. Peter Obi, which I find fascinating, instructive and worth publishing. I discussed the election in my local government -Idemili – and told him how our state has continued to degenerate. I reminded him that four years ago people were…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced Abdulrasheed Maina, the former chairman of the now-defunct Pension Reformed Task Team to eight years imprisonment. Maina was convicted after he was found guilty of money laundering. In a judgement delivered on Monday by Justice Okon Abang, the court held that the prosecutor, the…