LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria may be on the verge of a second wave of COVID-19 infections, the health minister warned on Thursday, as another official said the country expects to roll out a vaccine by April next year. Osagie Ehanire, speaking at a news conference in the capital Abuja, said 1,843 cases were recorded last…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos socialite Dapo Ojora, 58, the brother-in-law of former Kwara State Governor and ex-Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has committed suicide. THEWILL gathered that Dapo, son of prominent businessman and socialite, Otunba Adekunle Ojora, reportedly shot himself on Friday night in Lagos. The circumstances surrounding the incident remained unclear as at the time…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)- No fewer than 12 people were feared dead in a fatal road accident in Akungba Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State when a petrol tanker lost control due to brake failure and rammed into some vehicles on Friday evening. The tanker was said to have exploded…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo, a former rector of Enugu Polytechnic has been sent to to prison for scamming his students. Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu handed over the sentence on Thursday. Nwankwo was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The stolen mace at the Ogun State House of Assembly has been recovered in Lagos State, the police said on Friday. According to a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, the mace was recovered around the Abule Ado area of Lagos. “The police operatives…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has stressed importance of society to show love and support to physically challenged persons, while calling on the government to run an all-inclusive governance and make policies that will help the physically challenged to live…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State University has increased tuition of new students by 168 per cent. Our correspondent gathered that new students of the university would pay N67,048.50 as against N25,000 previously paid. When contacted on the telephone, the spokesperson for LASU, Adekoya Ademola, confirmed the increment of tuition for new students. He, however, clarified…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than sixteen travellers have been killed by unknown gunmen on Wednesday along Abuja-Kaduna expressway on their way back to Kano from a business trip. It was learnt that the sixteen travelers , from Dambatta local government, were conveyed in a private vehicle and met their untimely death on the Abuja-Kaduna…
