LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- As part of its partnership with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Ecobank Foundation (http://EcobankFoundation.org) is donating US$ 750,000 to the Ministry of Health in Mozambique to help combat malaria in the country. The financial contribution will support a net distribution campaign, while also providing life-saving testing…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons were on Thursday feared dead when commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as okada riders, and operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on the Environment clashed. The clash was said to have occurred on Isolo Road in Mushin area of the State when the Task Force members moved in to apprehend…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo State Police Command has arrested four ritualist suspects with a human head and hands. Two of the suspects, Olapade Saheed, 32, and Olatunji Abiodun, 26, were said to have been arrested with the exhibits at Ayegun Area of the capital city by vigilante men. The human parts were severed from…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom government, through its export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), says it will now accept naira payments from Nigerian business owners who make procurement in the UK. The UK department of international trade made this known in a statement sent to newsmen. The statement said the local currency financing…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Force Headquarters has launched an investigation into its personnel’s attitude to work. The probe it was gathered was aimed at solving the problems of lazy, unprofessional and mischievous policemen in the system. The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 5, Mr. Rasheed Akintunde, who dropped the hint in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has dragged the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, and 14 other Nigerian officials to a United States of America District Court over alleged complicity in the extra-judicial killings of its members. IPOB alleged that the extra-judicial killings…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wealthy Nigerians who do not take advantage of the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) to regularize their tax status, would face serious consequences, the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has warned. According to her, the Federal Government has compiled data on property, bank accounts, shareholdings and other income sources…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Catholic Bishops of Nigeria Thursday in Abuja told President Muhammadu Buhari that the country appeared to be under siege which required proactive measure, as hunger, hopelessness and deprivation have been the order of the day. The Bishops under the umbrella of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, also told the President that…
