LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many residents escaped death in Iseyin in the Oke Ogun geo-political zone of Oyo State when a truck rammed into houses in the town on Sunday afternoon. DAILY POST gathered that the truck, carrying bags of cement, lost control which led to the incident. Some shops in the area were also affected…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many persons, including women and children on board a yet-to-be-identified boat, have been feared killed as their boat capsized on the River Niger water. It was gathered that the incident happened early on Sunday morning as passers-by were seen rescuing the victims out of the river near the Onitsha banks. This is…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-TB Joshua, a charismatic Nigerian leader of one of the world’s biggest evangelical churches, secretly committed sexual crimes on a mass scale, a BBC investigation spanning three continents has found. Testimony from dozens of survivors suggests Joshua was abusing and raping young women from around the world several times a week for…
Some foreign airlines operating in Nigeria on Saturday announced plans to begin the sales of tickets in US dollars, New Telegraph reports. Industry insiders claim that the airlines have promised to sell dollar tickets in order to clear the backlog of monies they have stashed in Nigeria. According to sources, the plan was accepted by…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected insurgents in Nigeria killed 14 people in a rampage that began in a nightclub and proceeded into the surrounding neighborhood in northeastern Yobe state, residents said on Friday, two months after another attack in the state killed 40 people. The Boko Haram and splinter Islamic West Africa Province have waged an…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government is set to sack the boards of Union Bank Limited and Titan Trust Bank Limited next week in a move to effectively take over the two financial service institutions, a source with the knowledge of the move told THEWILL on Saturday. The action follows the recommendation of the Special…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has stated that actress Funke Akindele’s new movie, ‘A Tribe Called Judah’ reflected the challenges facing the less-privileged Nigerians. Obi stated this on Saturday in a statement shared on his X handle. DAILY POST reports that ‘A Tribe…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Adewunmi Samuel Sofomade, the leader of the Abuja-based music band kidnapped along the Lokoja highway, has disclosed the amount paid for their release. DAILY POST reports that the band leader was abducted in December 2023, alongside his crew, while returning from a show in Kogi State. The 13-man group was later released…