LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman identified as Mama Dada has allegedly set herself ablaze in Abeokuta, Ogun State, over her inability to pay back a N70,000 loan incurred from a microfinance bank. The incident took place in her rented apartment at Oke-Keesi, Itoko area of Abeokuta where she reportedly got burnt beyond recognition. The secretary…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairperson of the Commonwealth Observer Group to Nigeria, H.E. Thabo Mbeki, has urged the country’s political parties, candidates and their supporters to play their part in ensuring peaceful, transparent and credible elections on Saturday, 25 February 2023. The former President of South Africa made his statement at a press conference in…
LAGOS FEBRUAYRY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The act of man’s inhumanity to man was brought to limelight on Monday by the Force Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police, Muyiwa Adejobi, who narrated how a woman Police Inspector of a division in the Lagos State Police Command was detained for demanding money from a relative of a suspect…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian rapper and activist Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz, has sent a message to youths ahead of the February 25th, poll. Naija News reports that Falz who was vocal during the #EndSars has reiterated the need for Nigerians to vote against bad leadership in the country. In a video shared online,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has disagreed with his counterpart, Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, over his recent comment for faulting President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that the old N200 be recirculated until April 10, 2023, while the old N500 and N1,000 cease to be legal tender. Fashola,…
LAGOS FEBRUARU 21ST (NEWRANGERS)-Afenifere National Youth Council (ANYC), yesterday, endorsed the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, for President in the forthcoming general election, while calling on other Yoruba to vote for him. The National President of the group, Eniola Ojajuni, who spoke at a meeting in Lagos, said it was the turn of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian market trader allegedly trafficked to London has told a jury he was shocked when a doctor revealed he was to have a kidney transplant. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he thought he was coming to the UK for work. At the Old Bailey, Nigerian politician…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A son of Zimbabwe’s former President, Robert Mugabe, has been arrested over allegations he damaged property at a Harare party. Robert Mugabe junior, thought to be 31, faces three counts of malicious damage to property and two charges of assault on a police officer, his lawyer says. Car windscreens were allegedly smashed…