LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Madagascan minister was one of two survivors to have swum about 12 hours to shore after their helicopter crashed off the island’s north-east coast, authorities said. A search was continuing for two other passengers after Monday’s crash, the cause of which was not immediately clear, police and port authorities said. Serge…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Abuja popular ‘one chance’ operators now demand for ladies pants once the victim fails to give them enough cash and valuables. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports on how the Abuja-Zuba-Kaduna express roads have become infested by ‘one chance’ robbers who throw victims out of fast moving vehicles after robbing them of their cash and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has declared December 27, 28 and January 3, 2022 as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year Day. Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior, made the announcement in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja. The statement was signed by Shuaib Belgore, permanent secretary of the interior…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Gov. Chuck Robb’s Virginia mansion went up in flames late Tuesday. Firefighters arrived at the two-alarm fire on the 600 block of Chain Bridge Road in McLean, Va., at 11:30 p.m. The fire had spread throughout the home’s first floor. Two people escaped the home and were transported to the hospital…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will continue to deepen the use of technology in the conduct of elections, especially the electronic transmission of polls results and the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who said this yesterday in Abuja, explained that the uploading of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid a surge in demand for more cash by bank customers as the Yuletide season approaches, some Deposit Money Banks have slashed the withdrawal limits of their customers. Findings across bank branches in some key cities in the country revealed that many customers could not withdraw the total amount they needed over…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission has directed a Commissioner of Police and former Chief Security Officer to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, CP Abdulkarim Dauda, to tender his letter of retirement from the Police Force with immediate effect for breach of due process/illegal extension of tenure. The PSC took the decision at its 13 plenary…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria destroyed more than 1 million expired doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday after authorities said they could not be used before their expiration date. Faisal Shuaib, head of Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency, said health officials in Africa’s most populous country were left with little choice after receiving…
