LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Democracy Day celebration in parts of Plateau State on Monday turned into a day of mourning for communities in Barakin-Ladi and Riyom local government areas of the state, following the killing of about twenty-one people, including a clergyman, by the rampaging Fulani terrorists. According to a statement by the Beron Youth…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A legal practitioner, Festus Ogun has condemned a section of the Democracy Day speech President Bola Tinubu delivered on Monday. “It has become imperative to state here that the unnecessary illegal orders used to truncate or abridge democracy will no longer be tolerated,” Tinubu said in his nationwide broadcast. In response, the…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Detectives assigned to the Narcotics Division charged a female flight attendant for breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act (DDA) on Saturday, June 10. Forty-seven-year-old Michelle Virgo who is a dual citizen in Jamaica and the United States (US) was charged with possession of cocaine, dealing in cocaine, attempting to export cocaine, and…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians celebrated Democracy Day yesterday. A day set aside to mark the annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election, won by the late Chief MKO Abiola. One of those in the trenches to actualize the mandate then was Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO). He is now the President….
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man who claims to be possessed by a spirit of eating 30-40 wraps of fufu has gone to church to seek deliverance over his eating problem. The unidentified man who has an insatiable desire to eat large amounts of the African dish decided to come to church to seek spiritual help…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman thought to be dead by her relatives made a miraculous return to the land of the living at her own wake. Relatives of Bella Montoya, 76, were paying their respects to her at her wake on June 9 hours after she was pronounced dead by hospital staff at Martin Icaza…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six Swiss Police officers have reportedly appeared in court in connection with the death of a Nigerian man who suffered a fatal heart attack while being restrained during an arrest. The officers were charged with “homicide through negligence” in connection with the death of 39-year-old Mike Ben Peter, a Nigerian in Lausanne,…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Resolving national economic challenges is a condition for strengthening democratic culture and enhancing productive participation of the citizenry, Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has declared. Speaking at the 2023 Democracy Day Lecture organised by Coalition of Civil Society Coalition in the State, the state Governor, represented by the Secretary to the…
