LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Mohammed Babangida, the son of former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida, narrowly escaped death Monday evening when his convoy ran into a trailer loaded with tomatoes along the Minna-Suleja highway. Three of the security guards, all soldiers, died in the accident after their black Prado jeep had a head-on collision with the trailer…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The foreign exchange (Forex) market in Nigeria was thrown into a panic mood on Monday when the value of the Naira significantly depreciated against the Pound Sterling at the parallel market. Business Post reports that the Naira lost N10 against the British currency at the unregulated segment of the FX market to…
By Jeno Richard-Odu All is now set for a comprehensive audit of personnel in the Cross River State Civil Service. This was made known by the Head of Service Mrs. Geraldine Akpet-Ekanem during a meeting in her office with staff designated to carry out the exercise. Mrs. Ekanem who maintained that the exercise which is…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Registrar of the National Examinations Council, Professor Godswill Obioma, is dead. Obioma died on Monday night at his Minna residence in the Niger State capital. The deceased’s wife, Mrs Elizabeth Obioma, told newsmen that her husband was killed by assassins. “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale and some gangs alleged to be from Nima have allegedly assaulted a supervisor at a road construction site at Adjiringanor in Accra for not extending the road to his office. In videos gone viral on social media, angry-looking Shatta Wale was seen shouting and hurling insults at the…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Some dare devil armed robbers on Monday robbed staff of the Kwara State House of Assembly at the popular Circular Hotels on New Yidi road in Ilorin, the state capital. DAILY POST reports that the robbery incident occurred at about 12.50 pm after three Accounts Department staff of the House of Assembly…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen opened fire at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver, the military and local media said. Four attackers on motorcycles sprayed bullets at a four-wheel drive vehicle carrying General Katumba Wamala, the minister of…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Provost of Nigerian Immigration Service, Imo State Command, Okiemute Mrere, has been assassinated. Mrere was murdered on Saturday night on Owerri- Port Harcourt Road in Owerri, our correspondent learnt on Monday. A senior officer of NIS, who confirmed to our correspondent, said the slain officer’s corpse was discovered in a…
