LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An oil tanker exploded killing no fewer than ten people, leaving others badly injured in Abuja. The explosion happened in the Gawu area of Abaji Local Government Area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The incident happened on Sunday when a tanker was trying to avoid colliding with a truck. After noticing…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Inyang Ekwo, a judge of the federal high court in Abuja, has ordered a stay of proceedings in the N7.1 billion fraud case against Orji Uzor Kalu, former Abia state governor. The EFCC had preferred a 36-count charge against Kalu and Ude Jones Udeogu, a former director of finance and accounts in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some unidentified gunmen reportedly waylaid an ambulance conveying a dead body and kidnapped the younger brother of the deceased in Edo State. The deceased who died in Lagos was being conveyed in an ambulance from Lagos State to Enugu for the burial rites before the incident. The Gunmen were said to have…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United States of America-based Nigerian has reportedly escaped from kidnappers’ den after turning the heat against one of his captors and beating him to a pulp. The man, identified simply as Chinweizu, was said to have been abducted on the Akara Isuikwuato Road in Abia State alongside an unidentified woman. It…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lady, Florence Sanwo, has been swindled to the tune of N400,000 in her search for spiritual help in Lagos and her condition became worse. The incident happened at Abule Egba area where she met one self acclaimed spiritualist, Saheed Olatunji, who lured her into parting with the said amount having successfully…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ekiti State Government has filed a lawsuit against the Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Adamu over the dismissal of an unmarried policewoman resident in Ekiti State for being pregnant. Omolola Olajide was discharged from the force in compliance with Section 127 of the Police Act and Regulations Cap. P19, Laws of the Federation…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed bandits on Saturday stormed Kutemeshi village in Birnin Gwari local government area and Kujeni village in Kajuru local government area of Kaduna State, killing 19 people. The bandits were reported to have left several others with bullet wounds as well as setting several houses and a church ablaze. The death records…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Popular Yoruba rights activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho has declared he has what it takes to fight against Boko Haram without the government’s support. Igboho made this declaration in a video interview released in 2020. He said: “That which I will use in the fight against Boko Haram, I have…
