LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday that 497 Russian troops had been killed and 1,597 injured to date since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine last Thursday. A military adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered a sharply different estimate hours later, saying that over 7,000 Russian soldiers had been…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Various women groups on Wednesday occupied the gate of the National Assembly in protest against the rejection of women-related bills at plenary. The lawmakers on Tuesday rejected all women-related bills including the one seeking to give at least ten slots to women as ministers and commissioners in the federal and state governments…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- President Muhammadu Buhari has approved $8.5m dollars to the ministries of Foreign Affairs and Humanitarian, Disaster Management, and Social Development, towards the evacuation of over 5,000 (registered and unregistered) Nigerians stranded in Ukraine. This was disclosed on Wednesday by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zubairu Dada. The minister told…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. for the first time has approved the direct delivery of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine as part of a package approved by the White House last week. During the Cold War, the CIA covertly supplied Stingers to Afghan guerrillas fighting Russian forces. Now Ukrainian forces locked in an intensifying fight…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman Board of the Electoral Institute Prof Abdullahi Abdu Zuru has commended the important role Election Violence Mitigation and Advocacy Tool (EVMAT) played finding ways to mitigate, and possibly eradicate the incidences of violence in the Nigerian electoral process. Making the commendation in an opening address he delivered at the workshop on Review and…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-–As Nigeria today marked the one-year anniversary of the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines to the country via the COVAX Facility, efforts are stepping up to ensure vaccine delivery targets are met. One year on from the first shipment, more than 65.8 million COVID-19 vaccines have been received in Nigeria through COVAX,…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWRAGERS0-An unidentified man has burnt to death while trying to pull a stunt in a masquerader attire in Anambra State. Our correspondent gathered that the incident happened at Ogbunike, during the Eli’m Ede Cultural Festival, on Saturday. The Eli’m Ede Festival is an annual event, where masqueraders of various sizes and shapes…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A man has been arrested after he mistakenly stabbed his mother to death at Zawiyya Tudunwada, Kontagora, Niger state. The man was reportedly fighting his wife when his mother stepped in to intervene. The husband then allegedly reached for a knife and attempted to stab his wife, but he mistakenly stabbed his…
