LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Libya on Tuesday repatriated nearly 1,000 migrants from Egypt and Nigeria who had been staying in the North African country illegally, officials and AFP journalists said. The 664 Egyptians were to be taken by bus to the Emsaed border post with Egypt, nearly 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) east of Tripoli. General Mohamad…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following Sunday’s killing of 18 persons in a crash involving an articulated vehicle on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway, FRSC Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, has directed that such vehicles conveying humans and animals together be impounded. Apart from those who died in the Sunday crash, 27 other passengers sustained injuries in the accident that…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has congratulated Victor Osimhen and Asisat Oshoala on their emergence as the 2023 African Players of the Year, in the men and women categories respectively. The former Anambra State Governor also celebrated Chiamaka Nnadozie who bagged the 2023 Confederation of African Football Women’s Goalkeeper, and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has begun reconciliation of members, indicating interest to bring back presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in this year’s general elections, Peter Obi, to its fold. The main opposition party, yesterday, stated that for it not to go into oblivion and win the 2027 polls, “a Northerner cannot…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service says it has commenced a comprehensive probe of the officer caught in a viral video requesting a N5,000 bribe at New Terminal, within the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos. In a statement reacting to the incident, Abdullahi Maiwad, the National Public Relations Officer of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has ordered an investigation into the alleged poisoning of 18 pupils at St James Primary School B, Owoope, in the state capital, Osogbo. It was reported that the pupils reportedly became ill after eating food supplied to the school under the state’s government-sponsored school feeding…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of the Police Service Commission IGP (Dr.) Solomon Arase has charged Police Public Relations Officers (PPROs) across the state Commands and Departments of the Nigeria Police Force to ensure that they are accessible to the public including the media, adding that they must be “available and must take their calls”….
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the festive season approaches and the spate of commercial activities among the motoring public increases, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) on Monday (11th of December, 2023) fagged off the Year 2023 Ember Months’ Public Enlightenment and Safety Advocacy Campaign with the newly launched ‘Lastma Female Elite Corp’ In a…