LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)– Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday he does not know if he will seek re-election in 2019 and the decision is personal and also for Nigerians. Buhari, 75, was speaking in a radio interview. He was elected in 2015 but spent much of 2017 in Britain being treated for an…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officials of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) Response Team yesterday rescued a middle aged woman trapped in the mud under the 3rd Mainland Bridge, inward Berger Iyana Oworo in the early hours of day. This incident came barely two weeks after a similar incident wherein a middle aged man was rescued…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Wednesday, Britain appointed a “minister for loneliness” to tackle what Prime Minister Theresa May described as “the sad reality of modern life” affecting millions of people. Tracey Crouch, a junior minister for sport and civil society, will take on the role as part of a broader strategy to combat loneliness in…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on yesterday, shot and killed a young man at about 08:00am in Abule-Egba area of Lagos State. The boy, identified to be Toheeb Olayiwola, boarded a public bus to convey him to his place of work but was hit on his head when customs officers…
LAGOS JANURY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two expatriates – an American and a Canadian – have been kidnapped. Mukhtar Aliyu, Spokesman of Kaduna Police Command, while confirming the incident to our reporter on Wednesday, said two police escorts attached to the expatriates were also killed in a gun battle to save the expatriates. The incident occurred along around…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Daphne Caruana Galizia, a prominent Maltese journalist and blogger who made repeated and detailed corruption allegations against Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s inner circle, was killed by a car bomb on Monday. Muscat condemned the killing as a “barbaric” act and ordered security services to devote maximum resources to bringing those responsible to…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A victim of Monkeypox receiving treatment at the quarantine centre in the Niger Delta University Hospital (UNDTH), Okolobiri has committed suicide. It was gathered that the victim, whose name was not disclosed took his life in the early hours of yesterday. The Bayelsa State government confirmed the development in a press conference…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Mpape, on Tuesday, remanded the duo of Fidelis Anosike (first defendant) and his brother Noel Anosike, Publisher of Daily Times and Managing Director respectively , in prison custody over alleged N100million fraud. They were remanded at Kuje prison. They were sent to prison after they…