LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The camp of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to President Bola Tinubu’s intervention in the lingering political crisis in Rivers State. Naija News reports that the president resolved the crisis during a meeting with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, former…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Uganda are holding a 110-year-old man over accusations of stabbing his 109-year-old wife to death for denying him conjugal rights. The Daily Monitor newspaper reports that Dominic Babiiha allegedly murdered Costansio Bakasisa with a billhook on Saturday at their matrimonial home in Kahunga, in the western district of Ntungamo. The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government is tinkering with the idea of subsidizing airfares to reduce the high costs of tickets. The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo was said to have held a meeting last week Friday with airline operators through their umbrella body, Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) with a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations Migration Agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), has advised potential migrants to be cautious of a syndicate that specializes in offering fake employment letters to Nigerians seeking to work in the United Kingdom, UK. Urging them to seek out proper information before embarking on any migration, the IOM disclosed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Joint Task Force on City Sanitation arrested 19 hoodlums for attacking the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) in Wuse, Abuja on Monday, December 18. The hoodlums stormed the premises in the early hours of Monday over the demolition of a Mechanic Village in Kubwa, by the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has said that Police operatives have finally arrested four robbery kingpins who raided three new-generation banks in Otukpo, Benue State. The IGP disclosed this during his last press briefing for the year and meeting with senior field commanders at the police headquarters in Abuja….
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja-based Juju musician popularly known as Omoba De Jombo Beats and his crew members were reportedly kidnapped on Sunday in Kogi State while travelling to perform at an event. Another Nigerian musician, Adeyinka Adeboye, popularly known as Boyebest disclosed the information on the abduction in a post on his Instagram account….
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The rate of inflation in Canada unexpectedly remained stuck at 3.1% last month, giving the central bank another reason to keep its policy rate at the highest level in two decades. The consumer price index rose by 3.1% in November from a year ago, matching the increase a month earlier, Statistics Canada…