LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu, his deputy, Kashim Shettima, and other top Nigetian government officials are now to pay access fees at the gates of the airports across the country. This was disclosed to the State House correspondents by the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, after the meeting of the Federal…
The police say the 38-year-old suspect set off a petrol bomb in the mosque following a family dispute over inheritance. The police have arrested a man who allegedly detonated a bomb that killed a worshipper and injured 24 others in a mosque in Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano State. The incident occurred early Wednesday…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Olamide Taiwo, a 3-year-old boy, who was carted away in a stolen vehicle has been found in Owode-Oniri, Ikorodu, Lagos State. City and Crime reports that the three-year-old boy was inside his father’s car when suspected thieves hijacked the vehicle and zoomed away in Ikenne, Ogun State on Saturday. The father, Taiwo…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burundi took a giant stride towards the final qualifying round for the 2024 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup with a staggering 18-0 win over Djibouti in the first leg of their third round tie on Sunday. In a one-sided contest relocated to Ethiopia, the young Burundian stars ran riot, with Esperence Habonima…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said it has successfully cleared the decade-long gridlock on the Mile 2-TinCan-Apapa corridor, home to the TinCan and Apapa ports. In a post on its official X account, the NPA attributed the feat to a collaborative effort involving the Lagos State Government, the Nigerian Navy, the Nigeria…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A teenage student, Benjamin Basil, who was apprehended by security operatives at a bank in Jos with devices suspected to be bomb explosives while trying to rob them of N100m on Tuesday narrated how kidnappers forced him into the act. Speaking with PUNCH Online on Tuesday at the police Command headquarters in…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Court sitting in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on Monday, remanded two reverend sisters of a first generational church (name withheld), for illegal dealings and fraudulent adoption of children. Their names were given as Reverend Sister Angela Onyenachi Ibe, aged 42, and Mother-General, Reverend Sister Chiemelie…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France on Wednesday said it was imposing a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia for at least 12 days, boosting police deployments and banning video app TikTok in a bid to quell deadly unrest that has left four people dead. The emergency measures give authorities greater powers…
