LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman walking across an Arizona road was hit and killed by a self-driving car from Uber Technologies Inc. on Sunday — probably the first pedestrian fatality for the fast-growing movement toward driverless vehicles. Tempe police said Elaine Herzberg, 49, was struck by an Uber test vehicle operating in autonomous mode. In…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen on Sunday kidnapped an aged woman at Ubakala, Umuahia south local government area of Abia state, Daily Pot Report The victim’s name could be ascertained as of the time of the incident, but sources hinted that she is the mother of a communication giant and Chief Executive Officer of SLOT,…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris, on Monday ordered an immediate withdrawal of police officers attached to some political office holders and very important personalities, VIPs, in the country, citing the security challenges facing Nigeria as reason. Recall that the IGP had stated that the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, has perfected…
LAGOS MATCH 19H (NEWSRANGERS)-Michael Friday, a Nigerian scientist, has invented a device, ‘Mobile Intercom’, which aims at relieving subscribers of telecommunications services from buying recharge cards. Michael explained that the quest to free Nigerians from over-dependence on highly expensive imported telecom services, informed his decision to come up with the innovative idea. He recalled the…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the nation races toward 2019 general election, many strange things are happening daily in our political space; some heartening and others, undesirable. Particularly echoing on this wavelength is the demand for a robust political partisanship. A move that is aimed at terminating the dearth of leadership that has…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four thousand members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who were reported to have decamped from the party on Sunday, March 18, failed to appear at a rally scheduled by the governor of Jigawa state, Muhammad Baduru. The governor was present at Birnin Kudu local government area of the state to received…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A mother of two unemployed graduates, whose name was given as Uzoaku, on Saturday hanged herself in Mgbakwu, in the Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State. It was gathered that the 66-year-old woman had complained to some people that she was angry that her two children, who graduated some years…
LAGOS MARH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The families of a candidate of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in Awka, Anambra State, John Ezekwe, and a cameraman in Lagos, Victor, have been thrown into mourning after they drowned on Saturday. While Ezekwe drowned in the swimming pool of a hotel on Old INEC Road, Awka South, Victor was…
