LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donkeys are in a state of global crisis with the animals facing population collapse across a number of countries as traders target their skins to export as an ingredient for ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine, international animal welfare charity The Donkey Sanctuary can reveal. The charity’s latest report into the trade, Under…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The senator who reintroduced the bill that seeks to penalise hate speech claims he has been receiving threatening messages after the first reading of the bill. Aliyu Abdullahi said this during a press briefing in Abuja on Monday. He, however, said he is not a coward and will not back down from…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people died in a shooting outside a Walmart in Duncan, Oklahoma, when a man shot his wife and her boyfriend before killing himself, police said Tuesday. Wbillado R. Varela Jr., 43, shot his wife, Rebecca N. Vescio Varela, 31, and her boyfriend Aubrey P. Perkins, 39, in the store parking lot on Monday, authorities said….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The EFCC, Lagos Zonal Workplace, has uncovered that Hope Olusegun Aroke aka H-Cash, a convicted web fraudster presently serving a 24 years jail time period, continues to be in energetic communication with different excessive valued targets which can be presently being investigated by the Fee for numerous offences regarding pc fraud and…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate has distanced itself from the proposed Hate Speech Bill following series of criticism against the Bill aimed at stifling free speech. Acting spokesperson for the Senate, Senator Godiya Akwashiki, told journalists in Abuja on Monday that contrary to widespread impression, the bill was not the idea of the ninth Senate He…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI) and its counterpart, the National Union of Banks Insurance and Financial Institutions (NUBIFIE) told newmen at the weekend that workers in the sector would embark on an indefinite strike over failure of their employers to review the Collective Bargaining Agreement…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, says he is the winner of the Saturday’s governorship election. He said this at a press briefing in Yenagoa on Monday. Among those present at the media event were Diri’s running mate, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo; PDP’s Vice Chairman, South-South…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Monday succeeded in evacuating a lion found at a private home around Victoria Island of Lagos to a zoo in Omu Resorts, Lekki. Chairman of the Agency, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi disclosed that the exercise was carried out in conjunction with officials of the…
