LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A twenty five-year-old female house help, Dominion Okoro, a native of Calabar, Cross River State, yesterday revealed how she used a stool in the early hours of December 2 to hit the head and killed Madam Maria Oredola Igbinedion, 85, the mother of former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion. Okoro,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission on Tuesday approved the promotion of two Assistant Inspectors-General of Police to the next rank of Deputy Inspectors-General of Police. The two AIG’s promoted to DIGs are AIG Zaki M. Ahmed and AIG Johnson Babatunde Kokumo. A statement by Ikechukwu Ani, head of Press and Public Relations noted…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Victor Osimhen said Tuesday that he will be available to play for Nigeria at the Africa Cup of Nations despite currently being out of action while recovering from a smashed cheekbone. Napoli forward Osimhen looked certain to miss out on the continental tournament, which is scheduled to kick off on January 9,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A brawl has broken out in Ghana’s parliament during a late-night session over a contentious government-proposed levy on electronic transactions. MPs shoved, pushed and threw punches at each other, while others tried to stop the fighting. The chaos started after opposition MPs rushed forward to prevent Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei Owusu from…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has arrested the relative of a patient at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, for allegedly attacking medical workers at the hospital. It was gathered that the yet-to-be-identified relative brought the patient with a gunshot injury in a Toyota Sienna to the surgical emergency unit of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service has so far generated over N2.3 trillion this year against the N1.679 trillion target it was given for the year, the Deputy National Public Relations Officer, DC Timi Bomodi has disclosed. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos, Bomodi revealed that the Service made various landmark seizures of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, notified the National Assembly of his resolve to withhold assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 in line with the provisions of Section 58(1) & (4) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). The president in a letter to the leadership of the National Assembly, exclusively obtained by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A 75-year-old man, (name withheld) who arrived Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos aboard a flight operated by Delta Air from the US this morning has died at the airport. The man was found dead shortly after the aircraft touched down and taxied to the avio bridge from where he…
