LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS-Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State on Thursday locked the gate of the Government House against staff who came late. The governor was said to have driven himself to the Government House around 8:30am only to find out that the majority of the staff were not in their various offices. He met…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, will still remain in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) despite being granted bail on Thursday by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. The presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, had granted Kyari, a former head of the Nigeria Police Response Team…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium, yesterday, following the death of three yet –to–be identified persons in a bloody rival cult war in Shomolu-Bariga area of Lagos State. The Guardian gathered that one of those inflicted with bullet injury during the gun duel is now in coma at an undisclosed hospital. Although the cause of…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva criticised the appointment of Carlo Ancelotti as the new Brazil football coach, claiming he would be better off sorting out the Italian national team’s problems. Italian Ancelotti, who has won the Champions League a record four times as a coach, will take charge prior to…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, has stated that “plutocracy has replaced democracy in Nigeria”, the effect of which is that “people have lost confidence in the democratic process.” According to Falana, “out of the 93 million voters that were registered, only 22 million voted in the presidential election.” Falana stated this…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At the once-bustling Utako Motor Park — an interstate motor hub connecting Nigeria’s capital Abuja to its 36 states – transporter Jume Hanwa took a rare daytime nap in the trunk of his empty vehicle. It was Eid al-Adha, a Muslim holiday typically celebrated with travel and family reunions, but no traveler…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has signed four Executive Orders one of which is the suspension of the five per cent Excise Tax on telecommunication services as well as the Excise Duties escalation on locally manufactured products. The Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake announced this on…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two firefighters have been killed while battling a massive blaze on a container ship docked at Port Newark, New Jersey. The fire broke out on the massive Grande Coaster Eadoirio around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and continued to burn early Thursday. The US Coast Guard said multiple vehicles caught fire on the ship….
