LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Illinois chemical plant that manufactures grease and oil caught fire Monday morning, creating a massive conflagration that rained ash and debris as far as 50 miles away, reports said. The Rockton Chemtool plant, located close to the Wisconsin border about 100 miles northwest of Chicago, caught fire around 7 a.m., leading…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Victims Support Fund (VSF), an NGO, on Monday lamented the appalling conditions of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Niger State. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at Shiroro, Niger State, on Monday, its Executive Director, Prof. Nana Tanko, lamented that “with all the humanitarian agencies, development partners in Nigeria…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)- President Joe Biden and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, surprised locals in Falmouth, England when they dropped into Sacred Heart Catholic Church for Sunday service. The Bidens are in Cornwall, England for the Group of Seven – or G7 – summit, but locals were shocked to see the U.S. president…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-If there was ever a time Nigeria could have taken off, it was in 1999. Democracy had been restored, with its economy reopening after decades of mismanagement and plunder under military dictatorships. Tomi Davies, a systems analyst, was one of thousands of Nigerians who came home to help rebuild the country. After…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)Contrary to reports that Sarah, one of the daughters of the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) Prophet T.B Joshua, has given birth to a baby boy, a source in the church has described the rumour as false. Sarah, a lawyer, was reported to have been delivered of…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria loses not less than N100b every year in tax related fraud, experts at a conference organised by the country’s leading anti-corruption group said at the weekend. Speaking at the 25th Anti-corruption Situation Room organised by HEDA Resource Centre held at Sheraton Hotel on Saturday in commemoration of the June 12, 1993…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rector, St Pius X Spiritual Year Seminary, Akwu-Ukwu, Anambra State, Rev Fr Celestine Umeh, has narrated how the institution moved from being economically dependent to being self reliant after Mr. Peter Obi, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, came to their aid and…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Friday was exactly a week since the Nigerian government suspended the activities of popular microblogging platform, Twitter, in the country. As the suspension got into the second week, the federal government is yet to release conditions for the reversal of the indefinite suspension but claims to be in talks with the social…
