LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has identified Kwara and Plateau as the states with the highest population who engage in open defecation. One of its officials also said Nigeria still has the highest number of persons defecating openly. The Director, Water Quality Control and Sanitation, Ministry of Water Resources, Emmanuel Awe, disclosed this at…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected bandits have reportedly abducted no fewer than 20 students from an Islamic school in Madalla, near Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. An eyewitness told THE WHISTLER that gunmen invaded the Islamic Academy in Madalla on Thursday, shooting sporadically before carting away the students. Madalla is located between Suleja in Niger State…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Hadiza Usman has threatened to take legal action against Sahara Reporters over the online newspaper’s barrage of attacks against her. Usman said in a statement on Friday made available to Qed.ng that the publication has in the past two weeks spread false…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government on Friday said it would not increase petrol price in June despite the recommendation by the Nigeria Governors Forum that the cost of the commodity is increased. A committee set up by the Nigeria Governor’s Forum had on Wednesday recommended a petrol price of between N408.5/litre and N380/litre, and…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Omotayo Alasoadura, has disclosed that the Federal Government has released about N7 billion to contractors to facilitate the completion of the East-West Road project. This was contained in a statement by the ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Deworitshe Patricia, titled “FG released…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS(0Two suspects have been arrested after gunmen attacked St.Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church, Malumfashi on Thursday. During the attack, a priest, Reverend father Alphonsus Bello, died and another one, Reverend father Joe Keke, abducted. It was learnt that the gunmen invaded the church compound around 11 pm and headed for the residences of…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has said that the $7 million bounty placed on the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, will not be given to members of the Islamic State in West Africa Province. The US made this known via a tweet by its State Department Rewards for Justice Program while…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s army chief, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, died in a plane crash on Friday on an official visit to the northern state of Kaduna, which has had security challenges in recent months, the presidency said. The air force said in a statement that its plane crashed near Kaduna airport and that it…
