LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWRANGERS)-South Africa’s state power company intensified rolling blackouts to a record, signaling a deepening crisis at the debt-ridden utility and raising the risk of a second recession in as many years. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. said on Monday it will move to Stage 6 load-shedding from 6 p.m. local time, meaning it…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wildlife officials in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi are searching for a stray lion that reportedly mauled a man to death in recent days outside a national park. With the predator on the loose, the Kenya Wildlife Service has urged residents to avoid walking at night until it is captured, Kenyans.co.ke reported….
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to commissioned the legacy projects of Abuja Chamber of Commerce And Industry (ACCI) to demonstrate the support of his administration for the private sector. This was disclosed at the annual AGM of the chamber held in Abuja on Tuesday. The ACCI president ,Prince Adetokunbo Kayode who made…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Chief Superintendent of Immigration has been arrested for allegedly supplying bandits with ammunition in Sokoto. The officer whose name was not disclosed was said to be indicted in a confessional statement of some bandits arrested recently. The suspect was said to be in charge of one of the local governments hitherto…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A military plane with 38 persons on board has disappeared en route to Antarctica, Chile’s air force says in a statement. The C-130 Hercules transport aircraft took off from Punta Arenas at 16:55 local time (19:55 GMT), and operators lost contact soon after 18:00 (21:00). Among the missing are 17 crew members…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has extradited 64-year-old Babatunde Martins, a Nigerian living in Ghana, to Memphis to stand trial for an indictment charging him with cybercrimes and identity theft. According to the U.S Department of Justice, a federal grand jury in the U.S District Court for the Western District of Tennessee indicted Martins…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unidentified man said to be in his late 60s has been banished from Okofia, Otolo Nnewi for impregnating his own daughter twice. A Facebook user, Chinonso Okoro who took to a Facebook group to share the news of the man’s banishment said the community decided to send the man away after…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected kidnappers numbering over 20 laid sieges to the Abuja-Abaji Road, weekend, killing four passengers and abducting yet to be determined number of persons. All Progressives Congress, APC, ex-presidential aspirant in 2019, Alhaji Mumakai Unagba, who narrowly escaped, said, “They shot sporadically and not less than four persons were killed.” “Our vehicle…
