LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Georgia teenager who lost both his parents to COVID-19 within a week is urging people to take precautions during the pandemic. Justin Hunter told Atlanta ABC affiliate WSB that he and his parents had all tested positive for the coronavirus last month. He was asymptomatic, but soon his mom and dad…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-New yams are beginning to flood markets in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra. A survey by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday showed that farmers from agrarian communities such as Anam and Ogbaru brought their yam produce to Marine Market, Onitsha, to sell to the public. NAN reports that the farmers,…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate has revealed that the new head of the Interim Management Committee, IMC, of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei and other members of the Committee now collect 20 per cent to 30 per cent of contract sums before Contractors are paid. This is contained in the report…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected militants from Islamist group Boko Haram killed 15 people and wounded six others in a grenade attack on a camp for displaced people in northern Cameroon on Sunday, a security source and a local official told Reuters. In the early hours, assailants threw a grenade into a group of sleeping people…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A father of two children, Adeyinka Abiodun, has been rescued from committing suicide over a debt of N500,000. Abiodun who resides in the Ikotun area of Lagos State had embarked on a mission to take his own life by jumping into the lagoon. He, however, failed in the bid as he was…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Northern youths have rejected arguments by influential nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Mamman Daura, that competence, and not zoning, should determine the next President. The youths, under the aegis of the Arewa Youths for Peace and Security (AYPS), said the south should be allowed to produce the next President because it…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Reliable sources from Aso Rock have hinted on some of the reasons why President Muhammadu Buhari refused to see Osagie Ize-Iyamu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 19, 2020 gubernatorial election in Edo State, despite several pleas by the Secretary to Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha on…
The AGF was said to have sent a letter ordering the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Commission, (ICPC) and the Department of State Services, (DSS) and the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit, (NFIU) to all stop probe of the NIRSAL scam. He was said to have described the investigations…
