LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWRANGERS)-Benedict XVI, the former pope who spent years in the Vatican upholding conservative Catholic teaching but who upended centuries of tradition by resigning as pontiff, died Saturday, the Vatican announced. He was 95. The German-born Benedict lived out his final years in a converted monastery at the Vatican, giving rise to the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the security crises confronting the country, the high command of the Nigerian Army has directed over 120 major-generals, brigadiers, colonels, lieutenants, captains and others to proceed on compulsory retirement. The affected officers, who include those who failed their Senior Staff Course Examinations, were ordered to submit their letters of voluntary retirement…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has denied reports that the G-5 governors have endorsed any presidential candidate. He spoke at the Eneka Road roundabout during the inauguration of the Eneka-Igbo Etche Road project, shortly after arriving from the UK on Friday. He also denied having any interview with the BBC as alleged…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos has approved the release of 104 inmates from various prison facilities across the the State. This is contained in a statement issued by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo on Friday. The statement said Sanwo-Olu, on the recommendation of the Advisory Council on the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Confusion reigned at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, when thousands of people returning home from Christmas could not quickly be attended to at Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, section. Fracas almost ensued when some security agents were helping some passengers to beat the long queue as other passengers began to protest…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 House of Assembly candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Odogbolu State Constituency, Ogun State, Lukmon Adeleye, has lamented the rate at which armed robbers attack people along the Agoro-Okun Owa axis of the old Lagos-Benin Road Adeleye blamed the non-repair of the Agoro-Okun Owa axis of the old…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army on Friday said Lieutenant PP Johnson, a female soldier abducted by gunmen on Monday, has not been released by her captors. Johnson, a newly commissioned female Lieutenant in the Nigerian Army (NA), was kidnapped while visiting her grandmother in Aku-Okigwe in Imo State. In a viral video, one of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prices of petroleum products will go down significantly beginning this Sunday, January 1, 2023, the Institute for Energy Security (IES) has predicted. This follows an improvement in the value of the Ghana cedi to the dollar during the last two weeks and a slight reduction in the price of crude oil on…