LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Serial Entrepreneur and Businesswoman, Jaruma has announced a cash prize of 50 million naira to the Port Harcourt based Big Brother housemate, Tacha who was recently disqualified from the reality show. The Entrepreneur made the announcement of the donation of 50 million naira on her Instagram page. She said “Sweetheart @symply_tacha come…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said he bears responsibility for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year by Saudi operatives “because it happened under my watch,” according to a PBS documentary to be broadcast next week. Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, has not spoken publicly about the killing inside…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There was anxiety among fans of popular singer, Majekodunmi Fasheke, aka Majek Fashek, when it was reported on some online media that the artiste fondly known as the ‘Rainmaker’ had passed on in London. However, his manager and friend, Umenka Uzoma, told SATURDAY BEATS that the veteran singer was getting better. In…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the newly introduced controversial charges on bank deposits was optional. The CBN also said that charges on withdrawals from banks were optional for individuals and businesses. Reports have it that the apex bank made the claims on its verified/official Twitter handle Sunday morning. “Under the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Policemen attached to the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences have arrested 28 suspected miscreants and 15 illegal street traders at various locations around Afrika Shrine, Alausa, Ikeja. Chairman of the taskforce, Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed this in a statement by the agency’s head of public affairs, Adebayo Taofiq, on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seventeen people were injured when two elephants at a Sri Lankan street pageant went on a rampage on Saturday (September 7), local media reported. TV footage of the parade shows one of the elephants bolting from a group of people before trampling bystanders as it ran down the road. Starting from a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reggae musician, Majek Fashek, has been hospitalised in a London hospital for undifferentiated-type schizophrenia. The troubled singer was reportedly flown out of Nigeria on August 24 after he was diagnosed with what sources describe as a serious illness needing urgent medical attention. His manager, Uzoma Omenka, said Majek took ill last month…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South African musicians have cancelled shows scheduled for Zimbabwe as tension grows over attacks against foreigners and foreign-owned businesses in South Africa. Mafikizolo and Mlindo the Vocalist said they were postponing their shows scheduled for Zimbabwe’s capital Harare and the second city of Bulawayo on Friday and Saturday, respectively. There have been…