LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar amid the nation’s preparation to host the 2022 World Cup, The Guardian reports. The report cites government data from the home nations of migrant workers, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The data have been compiled since Qatar was awarded the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The abductors of 27 students of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, have rejected a N2.7 million ransom offer by the parents of the abducted children. In an audio recording of negotiations between the leader of bandits and an unidentified mediator, it was learned that the abductors had turned down the offer…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Ebonyi State on Tuesday detained a woman believed to be a commercial sex worker for allegedly trying to sell her baby for N40,000. The woman has been identified as Victoria Chukwube, 32. The four-month-old boy was still breastfeeding. The woman said she wanted to sell the child to raise…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten people have been confirmed dead and 47 others injured as Boko Haram terrorists bombed Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria on Tuesday At least 10 rockets were fired into the city by the insurgents. Among the dead were nine boys playing football at Gwange, when rockets landed in the area. Another person was…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has frowned at what he described as an unprofitable lifestyle of wasting huge amounts of resources in celebrating the dead, as against giving the living a befitting life. Addressing journalists recently, Obi said if all…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The golf world is expressing concern for Tiger Woods, who had to be removed from his wrecked SUV Tuesday morning following a single-car accident in Los Angeles. The PGA legend was undergoing surgery to repair multiple leg injuries, according to agent Mark Steinberg. “I’m sick to my stomach. It hurts to see…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oby Ezekwesili, former Minister of Education has condemned calls seeking sympathy and love for bandits. Recall that popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, had mentioned that bandits are peaceful people and victims of circumstances who were forced into criminality. The Islamic teacher had called for a more lenient approach to the bandits,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has accused the Nigerian government of knowing the hideouts of killer herdsmen and bandits. Gumi said the federal government identifies the bandits and killer herdsmen through its aerial view. The cleric made the allegations on a Channels Television Programme, Politics Today. Gumi said the government was…
