LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Parents of schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Dapchi secondary school in Yobe state have released the names of 105 girls missing by Saturday. The parents said they were the only source of credible data, dismissing figures provided by the state government as false. The parents, who have created a group to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-CNN’s anchor, Isha Isatu Sesay, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement on missing Dapchi School girls. Buhari in a statement on Friday confirming the abduction of the girls described the situation as a national disaster while assuring parents of safety of their wards. Reacting, Sesay via her tweets said the case of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has condemned lopsided appointment of Northern extraction as the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) since its inception during the tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Onuesoke who spoke on the issue to journalists in Asaba,Delta State said reserving appointment of the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three men scooping vegetable oil from a fallen tanker, were, yesterday, killed at Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos when the tanker’s head suddenly turned and crushed them to death. .According to a witness, a woman was also badly injured by the tanker. It was gathered that residents had rushed to the scene thinking the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pregnant was reported to have giving birth minutes after being rescued from gang of kidnappers. NewsRangers gathered that Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) team on Sunday morning rescued a pregnant woman from suspected kidnappers in Badagry, Lagos. The Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, said in a statement on Sunday that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than eleven people were reported to have been rescued alive from a collapsed two-storey building on Sunday in Lagos. According to available information, the incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday. Rescue operation was still ongoing at the site of the collapsed building at 1, Community Road, off Old…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has confirmed that 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, are so far unaccounted for, after insurgents believed to be from a faction of Boko Haram invaded their school on February 19. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The General Advisor, British Military Advisory and Training Team (BMATT) in Nigeria, Major Ian Robertson, while condemning the attack and abduction of scores of students of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Dapchi in Yobe State by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, yesterday, pledged the willingness of the British military to assist in the…