LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Imo on Friday arrested some women protesting, some semi nude, over the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for allegedly conducting an unlawful assembly. Some of them pulled off their clothes and danced naked, while others lay on the ground and dared…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Few days to this year’s Eid-el-Kabir festival, most major markets in Lagos and Ebonyi states were devoid of the expected bustling activities that usually herald the season. Prices of rams continue to increase, making it almost unaffordable for many Muslims. Activities at markets were still business as usual, with little or no…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has visited the site of a four-storey building that collapsed in Abuja on Friday afternoon. At least 18 people are trapped beneath the rubble of the four-storey building which collapsed around 1.30pm in the Jabi area of Abuja on Friday. Our correspondent who was at the scene reported…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least eighteen persons are trapped under the rubble of a four-storey building which collapsed in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital on Friday, August 17. Unconfirmed reports said one person died when the four-storied building under construction collapsed on the workers and food sellers in the Jabi area of the city. Punch reports that…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday discharged nine men charged with the murder of the Apapa local government PDP chairman, Adeniyi Aborisade. Delivering a ruling, Chief Magistrate Mr Alex Komolafe, dismissed the murder charges against Rotimi Kujore, 44; Fatai Adele, 62; Ismaila Abiola, 50; Amos Fawole, 65; Victoria Falowo, 42….
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Men of the Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Kelvin Micheal, 28, over the death of a 40-year-old woman, Monsurat Idowu after a bout of sex. The Command’s spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed this on Thursday in Abeokuta. According to him, “the arrest of the suspect was as a result of…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium in the Amarata end of the Mbiama-Yenagoa area of Bayelsa State, as four armed gunmen attacked and robbed two businessmen of N3.5 million yesterday. The development caused panic in the area as residents fled for their lives while shop owners locked up their shops, resulting in a gridlock along…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leader of Christian Praying Assembly (CPA), Dr Emeka Ezeugo, popularly called Rev King, a convict awaiting execution for the murder of a church member, has joined the 2019 Presidential race from prison, according to his members still milling around the Ajao Estate, Lagos base of the now depopulated church. Residents of the…