LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Attempts by the Ogun State Government to prevent cholera from killing schoolchildren in the state have boomeranged after it went awry. An exercise initiated to deworm no fewer than 700,000 schoolchildren in 14 local government areas of the state this year has allegedly taken the lives of two pupils who were given…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Venezuelans fed up with fuel shortages have begun tapping into the country’s crude oil pipelines to distill their own petrol as the country’s economic demise accelerates. The emerging practice was documented by a Reuters investigation that found desperate Venezuelans breaking holes in pipes and siphoning off crude oil and diverting it to…
LAGOS November 22nd (newsrangers)-Five escaping prisoners died on Saturday when their car hit a tree after more than 60 detainees broke out of a Lebanese detention centre outside the capital Beirut, Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said in a statement. The ISF statement did not say how the 69 prisoners had escaped from the facility,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump is considering an executive action to target birthright citizenship in his final weeks in office, according to two sources who spoke with The Hill in a report published on Friday. Birthright citizenship is the policy whereby anyone who is born in the US is immediately granted citizenship, regardless of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Apparently in continuation of pressure on former president Goodluck Jonathan to run for president in 2023 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), some governors of the party Friday stormed the Abuja home of Jonathan to felicitate with him on his 63rd birthday anniversary. The governors, who visited Jonathan were…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has officially slid into second recession under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Government. The recent economic recession is the worst in over three decades, TheCable can report. According to gross domestic product numbers released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday, the nation recorded a contraction of 3.62 percent…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Law Students Association of Nigeria has dragged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), before the Federal High Court Abuja, challenging what it described as the incessant strikes of the union. In the suit which was filed at the court on Friday, the association is seeking an order to compel ASUU to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Counsel for some #EndSARS protesters in Lagos State, Mr Adesina Ogunlana, has said Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu will have to appear before the Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged killing of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20. Ogunlana said since the military claimed before…
