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…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has reacted to the new report by Transparency International (TI), revealing that corruption in Nigeria worsened between 2016 and 2017 Nigeria ranked 148 out of 180 countries assessed in 2017 on the Transparency International annual Corruption Perception Index, showing deterioration in perception of corruption in public administration in Nigeria compared…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a bid to rid the nation of the infamous activities of the Wonder Banks Operators, popularly known as the Ponzi scheme, the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested Twenty-seven suspected operators of illegal financial institutions. The suspects who were raided and arrested from different…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has written the national chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun, accusing him of sabotage. According to TheCable, Bola Tinubu accused Oyegun of sabotaging his Presidential assignment of reconciling aggrieved members. Tinubu said Oyegun contravened the discussion they both had at the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The corpses of two missing Dapchi schoolgirls who were abducted by the Boko Haram terrorists on Monday, in Yobe state, have been recovered by the Nigerian military. Their bodies were recovered during rescue operation, according to Reuters. Recall that Boko Haram terrorists had on Monday, attacked the Government Girls Science Technical College…