LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A water tank from a scaffold fell and killed two persons at Ladi Lak, Bariga, Lagos State on Sunday night, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Zonal Coordinator, South West NEMA, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. Farinloye said that…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has taken its investigation into the financial records of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) to the London office of the authority. The Public Accounts Committee is investigating non-remittances of accruing revenue to the Federation Account by the NPA as well as other queries from the…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Correctional Service, Lagos State, on Sunday, said no fewer than 353 inmates are currently on death row at the Kirikiri Custodial Centre. The spokesman of the Service, Mr Rotimi Oladokun, confirmed the number in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos. According to him, about 210 inmates…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Francis Oguntulu, the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area Chairman, Kehinde Oloyede, has been shot dead by some gunmen at a party. In a statement from the media office of the LG boss on Sunday, it was revealed that Oguntulu was shot at and axed on Adeyemi street,…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Police command has arrested a man, Amoda Bola, 49,for allegedly impregnating his 14 years old biological daughter and forcing her into prostitution. The suspect and five others who were allegedly paying money to him to sleep with the victim were arrested on May 17. According to Ogun State Police…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has made clarification to a misunderstanding arising from a recent short interview granted to a national newspaper on the procedure for result management during elections. Statement signed by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye Esq. sighted by NewsRangers lamented that…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria’s oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said on Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe. Armed gangs have been kidnapping people, including priests, for ransom from villages and on highways mainly in the northwest…
By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-On 25 June 2009, President Umoru Yar’Adua (now late) granted presidential amnesty to Niger Delta militants who had directly or indirectly participated in the commission of offences associated with militant activities in the Niger Delta, and who were willing to surrender their weapons and renounce armed struggle…
