LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Lagos State rejected findings by a judicial panel that security forces carried out a “massacre” of unarmed protesters last year, maintaining that only one person suffered a gunshot wound, according to a paper issued by the government this week. The judicial panel, which submitted its full report last month, was tasked…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Roman Catholic priest is collecting and saving hundreds of traditional pre-Christian religious artefacts in southeast Nigeria that new converts to Christianity had planned to burn. The collection includes carvings of pagan deities and masks, some of them more than a century old and considered central to the pre-Christian religion of the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil servants and the general public without proof of vaccination and negative PCR tests are currently being prevented from accessing government buildings in Abuja, The PUNCH reports. The PUNCH had reported that the Boss Mustapha-led presidential steering committee on COVID-19 had announced in October that civil servants without proof of vaccination and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed the case against the election of Prof. Charles Soludo as the Governor-elect of Anambra State. In a judgement delivered by Justice Taiwo Taiwo, the dismissed suit sought to nullify Soludo’s election on the allegation that he presented false information to the Independent National…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has detected its first case of the omicron coronavirus variant in a sample it collected in October, weeks before South Africa alerted the world about the variant last week, the country’s national public health institute said Wednesday. It is the first West African country that has recorded the omicron variant since…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Four frontline entertainers and activist involved in the #EndSARS protests against police brutality, Folarin Falana, Debo Adebayo, Seun Kuti and Dele Farotimi have declined the invitation by Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to join a “walk for peace”. The development is sequel to the offer made by the governor on Tuesday, inviting…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Electricity consumers in Port Harcourt have expressed regrets over the introduction of the prepaid meter system and called on the Port Harcourt Electricity and Distribution Company (PHEDC) to improve on the system or return them to analogue system. Some users who bared their minds on the issue accused PHEDC of short-changing people…
LAGOS There was palpable tension in Aramoko-Ekiti, Ekiti West Local Government area of Ekiti State yesterday, as a policeman and a Special Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Corps, were shot dead on Monday evening when armed robbers attacked a branch of an old generation bank located in the community. This was the second time…
