LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria (CRAN), the body of Journalists covering crime and security nationwide, has congratulated two recipients of the latest national honours —IGP Solomon Ehigiator Igbe-Arase Usman (Rtd) and IGP Usman Baba Alkali IGP Solomon Ehigiator Igbe-Arase (Rtd.) and IGP Usman Alkali Baba were both conferred with the Commander…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A peacemaker, identified as Peter Spencer Nwabuaze, has been stabbed to death while trying to separate two boys who were fighting in Asaba, Delta State. It was gathered that the unfortunate incident occurred on Sunday morning, October 10, just four days after he relocated from Lagos State to Asaba with his pregnant…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian medical doctors and their counterparts from developing countries working in the United Kingdom have lamented exploitation in the course of their work. This was revealed by BBC on Tuesday adding that an investigation proved that Nigerian doctors recruited by a British healthcare company are expected to work in private hospitals under…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A wealthy businessman with a reputation for being frugal, Peter Obi has emerged as a powerful force ahead of Nigeria’s presidential election next February, energising voters with messages of prudence and accountability that are amplified by an army of social media users. In a country that seems to always be on the…
By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Without prejudice to extent of preparations, has government genuinely evaluated reasons for dispute and rejection of previous census results in Nigeriabefore proceeding to organize another headcount? Results of census conducted in 1962, 1963, 1973, 1991 and 2006 were all marred by anomalies and controversiesallegedly engendered bymanipulation and falsification…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With two out of three opinion polls in his favour and his ‘million- man march’ waxing in strength and spreading across over four of six geo-political zones in the country currently, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, can be said to be the candidate to beat in the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Travellers on a Lagos-bound train were stranded on Monday after the locomotive developed a fault in the middle of a forest. A Twitter user, Yinka Seth @inkaseth, who tweeted the incident, claimed that some steel parts of the rail tracks were removed by some hoodlums. The tweet read, “My first tweet went…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A notorious bandit leader in Kaduna State, Ali Dogo, and 30 of his men have been killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), according to a report by PRNigeria. It was learnt that Dogo, also known as Yellow, and his gang members, were neutralized by airstrikes undertaken by the Air…