LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A plane carrying Gambia’s national soccer team made an emergency landing after a sudden loss of oxygen during their flight to compete in the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. A chartered flight Wednesday carrying the “Scorpions” returned to Gambia’s capital Banjul after being airborne for nine minutes when the crew realized there…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pandemonium broke out in the Itori town of Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State on Tuesday after a missing one-year-old girl, Janet Ajayi, was found dead inside a well. PUNCH Metro learnt from the Ogun State Police Command that Ajayi, who had been missing since January 6, 2023, was found dead…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, has described the 60 percent cut in federal official trip expenses by the presidency as merely scratching the surface, noting that it is limited in scope. President Tinubu had slashed the travel expenditure of all government officials – both…
By Max Barlow LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 Africa Cup of Nations gets underway this week with some of the continent’s biggest stars set to lock horns in the Ivory Coast. Premier League players such as Mo Salah, Andre Onana, Nicolas Jackson, Alex Iwobi, Papa Matar Sarr, Idrissa Gueye and Mohammed Kudus are all set…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pastor Promise Festus from Ngo Town in Andoni local government area of Rivers State has cried out for help to the governor of the state, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, and the chairman of Andonim LGA, following the death of his five children in a boat mishap. Festus’ sons and daughters were part of…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female marketing employee of a bank in Ikorodu, Lagos State, has committed suicide. The deceased, 32-year-old Amarachi Ugochukwu, was said to have drunk an insecticide. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened on Monday within the premises of the bank. Ugochukwu had around 1pm made her way into the restroom, where…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party at the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has reacted to the recent suspension of the minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu. Reacting to the suspension in a tweet via his official X account on Wednesday, Obi welcomed the suspension of the embattled…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government destroyed 2.5tons of confiscated elephant tusks worth over $11.2million (N9.9billion) as part of efforts to safeguard its diminishing elephant population. The elephant tusks seized from wildlife traffickers were gathered to be destroyed in Abuja, Nigeria on Tuesday, January 09, 2024. Explaining the motive behind this, the country’s environment minister,…