LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGRS)-There was pandemonium at the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, on Saturday after a 500 level Applied Geophysics student, Tunji Agboola, slumped and died while playing football at his off campus residence close to FUTA South gate. He was rushed to the university’s health centre, but the centre was not open…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kano State governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, yesterday called on all Fulani herdsmen resident in other parts of the country, especially Benue and Taraba States, to relocate to Kano since the state has vast grazing land to accommodate them and their cattle. Ganduje, who stated this while inspecting the vaccination of over…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, on Thursday, denied nursing presidential ambition for the 2019 elections, but Nigerian markets are awash with Indomie packs bearing a photo of the politician and the inscription, ‘Ambassador Babagana Kingibe for President 2019’. The branded Indomie noodles have appeared on a large scale and are reportedly sold at the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President Bukola Saraki has allegedly been listed as one of the five owners of “unexplained wealth” in the UK. Other persons listed by Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs), according to Transparency International UK, are first family of Azerbaijan with estimated property value of £18 million; Igor Shuvalov, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the arrest of Kassim Afegbua for the statement he issued on behalf of former President Ibrahim Babangida. A government source, who does not want his name in print, confirmed that the IGP had ordered Afegbua’s arrest within 24 hours. It would be recalled…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The National President, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Socio-cultural Association, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo (Lamido Fulbe), has warned that nobody should try to remove Buhari in 2019, while adding that the Fulanis are being stigmatized. .He spoke to WILLY EYA of SunNews. On how he feels about how his tribe, the Fulani, is associated…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria police said it has killed one suspected kidnapper of Mobile Police Commander of Mopol 55 Aba, Abia State, Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP Solomon Nyakno Aniefok, while five others suspects were arrested alive. NewsRangers learnt that Aniefiok went on visiting round to check his men in the field when he…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of late Dr. Sunday Ogunyade of Gbagada, Lagos, has cried to President Muhamadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the House of Senate and the governor of Lagos State to wade into the problem they have with 11plc, former Mobil Oil. Ogunyade family has alleged that Mobil Oil…