LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NESRANGERS)-Ahead of this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration, the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) Nigeria has issued security advisory to its staff members, alerting them of possible attacks in Maiduguri and locations in the North Eastern part of the country during the celebrations. The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, August 21,…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC) is set for the trial of Gbenga Makanjuola, deputy chief of staff to the Senate President Bukola Saraki and a former Managing Director of Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria( SGBN), Robert Mbonu. The duo are to be arraigned over the alleged conversion of N3.5billion of…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Lagos State have arrested a 29-year old suspected ritualist, Taiwo Akinola, over an attempt to kill his biological mother for money ritual. Police said that Taiwo, a member of Aiye confranternity allegedly smashes his mother’s head with wood and pressing iron, leaving her to bleed to dead. The police…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three bodies, including a woman and her daughter have been recovered from the rubble of the four-storey building that collapsed at Obafemi Awolowo Way by Asuquo J. Okon intersection in Jabi, Abuja on Friday. Daily Trust learnt that rescue operators, especially the National Emergency Management Agency were forced to resume to the…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leading counsel to the Oyo State government, Yomi Alliyu (SAN) has told an Oyo state High court in Ibadan that the government of the state was not responsible for the destruction of the office of a popular gospel singer, Dr. Yinka Ayefele. The case was mentioned in court this morning. Justice…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A constitutional lawyer and president, Voters Awareness Initiative, Mr. Wale Ogunade, said on Monday that the gale of defections in the nation’s polity has exposed selfish politicians. Ogunade told the newsmen in Lagos that many of the defections were about personal interests and not in the interest of the people who elected…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The book is titled ‘Saved for His Praise.’ The book launch marked the celebration of Mr. Obasi who is a survivor of a strange illness that almost claimed his life. Obasi who is the publisher of Business Hallmark and a former Commissioner for Information in Abia State almost lost his life to…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected armed robbers have shot dead a Catholic priest, Michael Akawu, in Gwagwalada, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Akawu was shopping at a supermarket around 8 pm on Saturday when the bandits attacked the facility and fatally shot him. It could not be ascertained if the incident was…