LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Terrorists who attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train service AK9 at Dutse village on Monday night, killing eight persons, have phoned one of the families of the missing passengers The bandits told the family that their daughter and other passengers were with them in their camps. Speaking with LEADERSHIP, a source, who is close…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 20 people, including women and children, have drowned in the Guni-Zumba River while trying to escape attacks on their communities. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Wednesday morning when bandits simultaneously invaded Guni and Kurgbaku communities, forcing the residents to flee. Sources to Daily Trust that the…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRAGERS)-The embattled former Commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, has rejected food offered him by the Nigerian Correctional Service after being remanded in prison custody on Monday. The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, it was learnt, opted for the food prepared by his wife or other family members. Kyari, who is under…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-More facts have emerged over the death of Joseph Kabungo, a medical doctor from Zambia who was the Confederation of African Football (CAF) doping control officer for the Super Eagles and Black Stars game at the MKO Abiola stadium. Contrary to reports that he died after violence erupted at the end of…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Adepele Ojo on Wednesday said that prima facie case had been established against the Hilton Hotel owner, Dr. Ramon Adedoyin and six of his staffers arraigned in connection with the death of late Timothy Adegoke, a Master’s student at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Adedoyin, and six of his staffers, Adedeji Adesola,…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, and presidential hopeful has withdrawn from the 2023 race to support the ambition of ex-governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi. He made this known on Wednesday at a press conference held at the Iwe Iroyin Press Centre in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, saying that leader…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Embassy in Abuja says it will begin processing certain non-immigrant visa renewal applications without requiring an interview starting from March 30, 2022. The Embassy’s Senior Public Affairs Specialist, Aishah Gambari, made this known in a statement on Wednesday. The statement was titled, ‘U.S. Embassy in Abuja Begins Interview Waiver…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested grandson for allegedly leading of friends to defraud his grandmother the sum of N15, 708,904( Fifteen Million, Seven Hundred and Eight Thousand, Nine Hundred and Four Hundred Naira) belonging to a grandmother. The suspects: Badaru Munir (23); Aliyu Falalu…
