LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of people were missing in North Carolina after the county that was inundated with flooding rains from Tropical Depression Fred on Tuesday. The post-tropical cyclone drenched the western mountainous region of the state, washing out bridges, swamping homes and igniting landslides. Haywood County was particularly hard-hit, and about 35 people there…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (EWSRANGERS)-Heartbreaking footage of a US military aircraft leaving Kabul this week showed at least one person falling to their death. The small dot of a person plunging back to earth highlighted how desperate people were to escape the Taliban after the militant organisation seized control of the country. Thousands of people stormed…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Ilupeju-Oshodi, in the Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State, have lamented their losses after suspected cultists unleashed mayhem on the community on Monday and Tuesday. PUNCH Metro learnt that no fewer than 30 vehicles were vandalised by the hoodlums on 12 streets in the area. The affected streets are…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lady suspected to be a worker with Multi-choice was yesterday morning shot dead along the LASU/Iba road while heading to her office. The deceased was said to have been shot twice in the head by two men on a motorcycle. The two men, believed to be armed robbers, had demanded submission…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely three weeks after some armed men attacked a bullion van in Ondo town, some daredevil armed men again attacked another bullion van in Emure Ile in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State. The robbers who attacked the bullion van belonging to a commercial bank started shooting at the van in…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the nation as it tries to keep a Taliban-led government from accessing the money, an administration official confirmed Tuesday. The official said that any central bank assets that the Afghan government…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSANGERS)-The lawmaker representing Ovia Federal Constituency of Edo State in the House of Representatives, Mr Dennis Idahosa, has petitioned the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), over alleged extortion and harassment of motorists and other road users by NCS officers at Ekiadolor, along the Benin-Ore-Lagos highway, Ovia North East Local…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) has described as fake and untrue the list of candidates for the award of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) published by an online newspaper. The committee, in a statement by the Director, Information, Supreme Court, Dr. Festus Akande, described the publication as false, fake and calculated…
