LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has expressed worries that expatriates are taking over jobs in the country. According to the government, the development is responsible for the soaring number of unemployed youths. The latest Nigeria Bureau of Statistics’ (NBS) report showed that 33 per cent of the country’s population is unemployed. Minister of Interior,…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will restart issuing new mobile subscriptions from next week, the government said, four months after it halted the process in an attempt to curb growing insecurity in the country. Africa’s most populous nation is battling a surge in violence, including a jihadist insurgency in the northeast, banditry in the northwest and…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested a 300-level Accounting undergraduate of the Niger Delta University, African Innocent, for allegedly shooting to death of a fellow student of the institution, James Okunmakpeye, at a lecture hall on Wednesday. It was gathered that the victim was shot in the head at close range…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Acting Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba, has ordered the immediate disbandment of the IGP Monitoring Satellite Offices in Lagos and Port Harcourt over complaints of harassment and operating beyond their briefs by Nigerians. Speaking at his maiden meeting with Command Police Commissioners and zonal AIGs, in Abuja , Baba said the IGP…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Actress Rosemond Brown popularly known as Akuapem Poloo has been convicted by the Accra Circuit Court over naked pictures with her son. The conviction comes after she posted a naked picture with her son on Instagram celebrating his seventh birthday. She has been remanded into custody to undergo a pregnancy test before…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For days now, protesters have continued to picket the Nigerian Embassy in London and the Nigeria House where President Muhammadu Buhari has been observing his medical vacation, frustrating efforts of medical personnel from attending to the president who is suffering pains from the kidney surgical transplant he had, Dementia and Alzheimer, a…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada has rejected the request of a former member of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Olushola Popoola, seeking asylum in the North American country. Popoola’s application was rejected by the Immigration Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board in Canada because of him being a member of the defunct unit of the Nigeria…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Monday slumped before being revived during an official assignment in Sokoto. He was immediately surrounded by anxious aides and dignitaries who raised him up from the ground after successfully reviving him. Malami, who recently returned from an official visit to…
