LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has on Thursday dismissed the application by the Indegenous People of Biafra, IPOB to reverse the court’s order proscribing it and designating it as a terrorist group. The Acting Chief Justice, Abdu Kafarati, while delivering his ruling on the application, resolved all the three formulated…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr. Sij Hemal, 27, a second-year urology resident at Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, helped a 41-year-old Nigerian banker, Toyin Ogundipe, deliver her baby on December, 17, 2017. Ogundipe, who resides in both the United Kingdom and Nigeria – went into labor about midway into her flight from Paris-to-New York,…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bukola, a staff of IBEDC, Ota, was allegedly shot by the NCS operatives attached to the Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Ikeja, around 7.45a.m. while on her way to the office. She was hit by bullets on her back and the left side of her body, when the customs officials were on the…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)– Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday he does not know if he will seek re-election in 2019 and the decision is personal and also for Nigerians. Buhari, 75, was speaking in a radio interview. He was elected in 2015 but spent much of 2017 in Britain being treated for an…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officials of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) Response Team yesterday rescued a middle aged woman trapped in the mud under the 3rd Mainland Bridge, inward Berger Iyana Oworo in the early hours of day. This incident came barely two weeks after a similar incident wherein a middle aged man was rescued…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on yesterday, shot and killed a young man at about 08:00am in Abule-Egba area of Lagos State. The boy, identified to be Toheeb Olayiwola, boarded a public bus to convey him to his place of work but was hit on his head when customs officers…
LAGOS JANURY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two expatriates – an American and a Canadian – have been kidnapped. Mukhtar Aliyu, Spokesman of Kaduna Police Command, while confirming the incident to our reporter on Wednesday, said two police escorts attached to the expatriates were also killed in a gun battle to save the expatriates. The incident occurred along around…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A victim of Monkeypox receiving treatment at the quarantine centre in the Niger Delta University Hospital (UNDTH), Okolobiri has committed suicide. It was gathered that the victim, whose name was not disclosed took his life in the early hours of yesterday. The Bayelsa State government confirmed the development in a press conference…