LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An estimated 200 people or more have been killed in villages in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara during deadly reprisal attacks by armed bandits following military air strikes on their hideouts this week, residents said on Saturday. Residents gained access to the villages on Saturday after the military captured the communities…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-2021 ended with a report that Nigeria experienced a deficit of almost 200 million barrels of crude in the first 11 months of the year, mainly due to oil theft. But these experiences are all too common, and not limited to Nigeria alone. Year on year, we are seeing huge oil losses…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted, officials said Saturday. Most of the victims died of hypothermia, officials said. Among them was an Islamabad police officer and seven other…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government on Thursday said it was putting measures in place to ensure further reduction in the cost of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly called cooking gas. It disclosed this while reacting to the recent marginal drop in the cost of cooking gas. According to findings, the price of 12.5kg LPG has…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic was denied entry into Australia on Thursday after a storm of protest about a decision to grant him a medical exemption from COVID-19 vaccination requirements to play in the Australian Open. The tennis star remained in Australia after his lawyers launched an appeal seeking to…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Singer Tiwa Savage recently travelled to Ghana and the mother of one attended an event that saw her rocking a cute dress. The dress had large holes by the sides and the lower parts, hence showing her body. While many hailed Tiwa for the dress, actor Uche Maduagwu had something else to…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than forty four journalists were brutally killed during 2021, according to National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Chris Isiguzo. He also revealed that besides the forty four journalists killed in Nigeria, scores have been declared missing even as others are under serious threats. Isiguzo spoke during…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Crisis is looming in the Apostolic Christian Church Mission, (ACCM) Nigeria, over plans to install a new president of the Church without following the constitutional procedures stipulated by the constitution of the Church. The immediate past president of the Church, Rev. Apostle John Alozie Nwaugbor, died on October 26, 2021. Pointblanknews.com gathered…