LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil marketers, on Monday, failed to adjust the pump prices of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) at their filling stations to reflect the N5 reduction announced by the Federal Government last week. After meeting with officials of labour unions in Abuja last week, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, announced…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 49-year-old evangelist, Chinwe Ekwe, on Monday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos State that her husband is a womanizer and he sleeps with church members. Chinwe spoke while responding to a divorce suit filed by her husband, Pastor Paul Ekwe, who had accused her of planning to kill him, NAN…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has explained that one of the most potent ways of getting governance right in Nigeria is by, those in authority, pruning the cost of governance, which he described as outrageous and not sustainable. Obi was speaking yesterday to Senior Security Officers and other participants…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Daura, Katsina State, received more briefing on children kidnapped from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, with an assurance from Governor Aminu Bello Masari of steady progress to bring them out unharmed. “We are making progress and the outlook is positive,’’ the governor told newsmen after an…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer tha t 19 people have been kidnapped by gunmen in Ogu and Tegina communities in Rafi Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. The Chief of Staff to Rafi LGA Chairman, Mohammed Mohammed, confirmed the incident to Channels Television on Monday. He, however, had to place telephone calls to some…
The Customs’ Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, announced this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Attah explained that officers of the NCS, Federal Operation Unit (FOU) zone B, who were on patrol along the waterside, had seized a truck loaded with locally produced rice. According to him, some sacks were concealed under the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-BBC Hausa has interviewed a 17-years-old boy that escaped while being conveyed to the bush. He said they initially ran but the abductors assembled them back claiming to be security agents. He said when they left the school, the abductors asked one of them to count them. They’re 520! The boy said…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gerard Houllier who managed Premier League sides Liverpool and Aston Villa has died at the age of 73. The Frenchman, who spent six years at Anfield, has passed away just days after a heart operation. According to the Irish Mirror, the news was confirmed in France initially by both L’Equipe and RMC.
