LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board says it turned down 114 Nigerians who applied for refugee protection between January and June, 2023. So far, 12,035 Nigerians have been rejected under the scheme since January 2013, data from the Refugee Protection Division of the IRBC shows. The IRB grants refugee protection in Canada if…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The mother of Suleman Dawood, the 19-year-old who died with his father in the Titanic submersible, said she originally planned to join her husband on the vessel’s fateful dive, but let her son go instead. Christine Dawood told the BBC on Sunday that she and her husband, British-Pakistani multimillionaire Shahzada Dawood,…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi has called for urgent humanitarian assistance for residents of Trademore Estate in Lugbe, Abuja, in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) who were overwhelmed by a disastrous flood incident, saying that their situation is heartbreaking. Lives were reportedly lost, houses were submerged, residents were displaced and…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Frank Odita, a former police spokesperson, has died at the age of 84. In a statement yesterday, Muyiwa Adejobi, force spokesperson, said Odita died on Friday evening at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) after a brief illness. Before his retirement from the force, Odita was the public relations officer of…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The youngest ever person to explore the Titanic wreck has revealed he lost consciousness during his record-breaking dive in a warning to others about the inherent dangers of deep-sea exploration. Sebastian Harris son of Titanic expedition leader G. Michael Harris, became the youngest person to dive at the site of the infamous…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Lagos State on Friday arrested a 49-year-old woman over alleged theft of a day-old baby from a hospital. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday. Hundeyin said that the Ojokoro Police Division carried out the arrest on…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Congress of Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners, CONMMEP has congratulated the new Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, on his appointment by President Bola AhmedTinubu. In a congratulatory message signed by the President of the Association, Alh. Tunde Umar-Daniah made available to the media, the association applauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Association of Nigerian Students on Friday protested against the 300 per cent hike in school fees at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State. The students national body, while at the premises of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State Council, demanded the reversal of the increase and the sacking of…