LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 9 persons have reportedly lost their lives in the Alafin Sabo Idi Odun area of Oyo State on Monday, 4th October, 2021 when a tree fell on them. Focus Naija can report that the victims included market women and their children that were taking cover from a heavy downpour….
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting around 5% on Monday,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A human rights group, Nigerians For Justice (NFJ), has dismissed what it called an “obvious sponsored inquest” against the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi. The group in a statement issued on Monday in Asaba, Delta State capital, said that the PREMIUM TIMES…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, have confirmed their participation at the fifth annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP). The two-day conference with the theme “COVID-19 Pandemic: Recovery and Reconstruction in Nigeria” will take place at the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A light aircraft piloted by Romanian billionaire, Dan Petrescu, crashed into an empty office building near Milan on Sunday, killing him, his wife and their son, and all five others aboard, Italian media reported. The single-engine Pilatus PC-12 had taken off from Milan’s Linate airport shortly after 1:00 pm (1100 GMT) headed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS0-The spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress, Lagos State chapter, Joe Igbokwe, has accused members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra of invading his house in Nnewi, Anambra State, and setting it ablaze. Igbokwe took to his Facebook page on Sunday to lament the invasion and arson. Igbokwe, who is also the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRAGERS)- The Nigerian Army will on Monday commence three exercises nationwide. The exercises are code named Golden Dawn, Enduring Peace and Still Water. According to a statement on Sunday by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General, Onyema Nwachukwu, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, would flag off all…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Whitemoney emerged the winner of the Season 6 (Shine Ya Eye) of Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) after beating his closest rival, Liquorose by a wide margin. Whitemoney polled 47.00% well ahead of Liquorose who managed a distant 22.99% of the total votes. Pere came third with 14.77%, followed by Cross in fourth…
