LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Worried by the spate of insecurity, the Nigeria Army, 32 Artillery Brigade, Owena Barracks, Akure, Ondo State, has deployed drones that will help to comb the vast forests in Ondo and Ekiti states. The Brigade Commander, Brig. General Zakari Logan Abubakar during the launch at Osi in Akure North area of the…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Naspers’ pay-television business MultiChoice Group, owners of DSTV, is planning to lay off close to 2,200 workers in a shake-up of its customer care service, the company said on Friday. The axing will affect workers in South Africa. MultiChoice, which competes with Netflix in online streaming via Showmax, said in a statement…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Notorious Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), the Ponzi scheme which dashed the hope of over three million Nigerians in 2017, is back. The new version known as MMM Cooperation promises as much as 50 percent return on any amount invested in it — 20 percent more than what the extinct version offered. Just…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An aircraft belonging to Air Peace on Saturday overshot the runway and slid into the bush at the Port Harcourt international airport in Rivers state. A passenger on board was quoted to have said that the incident occurred around 4pm when the plane was about to land at the airport, despite the…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGRS)-No fewer than ten persons were repoted to have lost their lives in early morning pipeline explosion at Kom kom in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. The Rivers State Police Command confirmed the death of three persons in the raging fire caused by the pipeline explosion in the state, while…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSANGERS)-The police in Abuja have arrested a 22-year-old man, Mustapha Aliyu for allegedly beheading four children. The children were beheaded in various villages on the outskirts of Abuja. Aliyu said he had beheaded three boys and one girl. He said he was paid N170,000 for each male head he brought and N160,000…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Super Eagles and Bordeaux winger , Samuel Kalu on Friday suffered a heart attack ,even as it was gathered that the forward collapsed in training Prior to the Nations Cup, head coach, Gernot Rohr had voiced his concern over the fitness level of the player who scored one of Nigeria’s goals against…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has refuted claims that its Director of Information and Communication Technology, Mr Chidi Nwafor, has resigned. The commission made the clarification in a notice on its official Twitter handle @inecnigeria, on Saturday. It described the rumour as false, urging members of the public to disregard it. “The…
