LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Saturday set ablaze the building of Imo State high court in Orlu, reportedly burning part of the structure housing sensitive documents. The development is coming few days after some gunmen attacked the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Owerri, which the police said was carried out by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS0-The Lionel Messi-Diego Maradona debate has never been all that rational. It has reappeared ahead of Sunday’s 2022 World Cup final, with Messi one step away from clearing the hurdle that Maradona memorably did in 1986. And if the debate were a rational one, the current framing would be this: Messi could…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) numbering over 5000 Friday in Abuja occupied the premises of the National Assembly to protest the alleged missing N89 trillion stamp duty allegation against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele. According to the protesters, the demonstration currently ongoing at the assembly complex was to pass…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected of kidnapping two Umungalagu-Igbakwu brothers who live in Umungalagu Ivite Aguleri and work as native doctors in the same community.- Ifeanyi Simon, also known as Mgbo, and Okolo Nneke are two brothers who live in the Umungalagu village of Ivite Aguleri. They were kidnapped on Thursday afternoon at Ubaruisioye…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Global Peace Index has rated Nigeria as the seventeen most dangerous country in the world in 2022.. The Group described Nigeria as home to multiple criminal syndicates like Area Boys and cultists, stressing that crimes of both violent and petty nature are common throughout the country, in addition to terrorist incidents…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Acting Director General (DG), National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Monica Eimunjeze, has cautioned Nigerians against the use of bleaching cosmetic products, with the aim to have lightening skin, as this act is hazardous to health. She explained that use of skin bleaching products could cause…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of Autopilot faction of ESN, Simon Ekpa has been arrested earlier today by international Police popularly called “Interpol”. Finland based Simon Ekpa is a self-acclaimed member of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) He was alleged to have declared five-day sit-at-home order that has led to the killing of many…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice James Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, remanded Ali Bello, a nephew to Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello and one Dauda Sulaiman in prison pending the fulfilment of their bail conditions. They were remanded upon arraignment alongside one Abdulsalami Hudu, Cahier of Kogi State House Administration (now at…