LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Calabar carnival activities in Cross River State is to gulp over four billion Naira while hiring of helicopter to cover the event was allocated N500 million. Similarly, N500 million was allocated for the payment of the five bands and another N500 million for other cost associated with the celebration. Consequently, the total…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGRS)-A 13-year-old male suicide bomber has reportedly been shot dead close to the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in Borno state. A security source told TheCable that the bomber was gunned down by the security operatives who sighted him as he was trying to sneak into the premises of the university. “The sound…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The trial of five men who were charged with illegal importation of 661 pump-action guns continued on Monday, with the first defendant, Mahmud Hassan, alleging that the gang paid N1 million to security agents to smuggle in the gun consignment at the Apapa Port, Lagos. Hassan made the allegation in a video…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will sell all assets seized by the government in anti-graft probes and use the funds to bolster the treasury, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday. Nigerian state coffers have in past years been ransacked by government officials and their associates, and corruption is prevalent throughout society. Buhari was elected in 2015…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi. LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Eko Convention Centre, Lagos, venue of the meeting was lavishly decorated to impress, and it did impressed. The participants were corporately kitted; men and women alike. All seated in such a manner that could be mistaken for, fresh law graduates being called to the Nigerian Bar or shareholders…
LAGO FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International AIDS Society (IAS) has announced that Mexico City, Mexico, will host the 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2019). IAS 2019 will take place at the Centro Citibanamex on 21-24 July 2019. Held every two years, the IAS Conference on HIV Science is a unique forum for scientists, clinicians,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi has reiterated that Nigerians must quickly search for a leader that will unite the country along the line of common citizenship and nationalistic objective, rather than the one with the tendency to further escalate the current misgivings among the divergent ethnic groups in the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has declared that the Force is ready for the 2019 general election. He spoke in Lagos at the weekend during a book presentation. “We are prepared for the elections. We have the men and we have the equipment to carry out our duties successfully before, during and…
