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Oro Festival: Lagos Community Warns Females To Stay Indoors May 16

File photo of traditional worshippers during their festival

LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This year’s edition of the annual traditional ‘Oro’ festival, usually held in Ikorodu, Lagos State, has been scheduled for May 16, 2024, daytime and nighttime. This was disclosed in a letter issued by the Ayangburen Palace and signed by the Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Kabiru Shotobi; a copy of which was sighted […]

Consumer Protection Tribunal Restrains MultiChoice From Increase DStv, Gotv Subscription Rates

LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, issued a restraining order on Multi-Choice Nigeria Limited from increasing its tariffs and cost of products and services. Multi-choice had last week announced a price increment across its DStv and GOtv packages effective May 1, 2024. The pay-TV company claimed the […]

CBN Directs Kudo Bank, OPay, Moniepoint, Pampay To Halt Opening Account For New Customers

  LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kuda Bank, Moniepoint, OPay and Palmpay have paused account opening for new customers following a directive from the Central Bank of Nigeria. The directive came two days after the EFCC blocked 1,146 bank accounts involved in unauthorised forex dealings.  “We’ve temporarily paused new signups on our platform. This means that you’ll […]

How To Avoid Scammers New Strategy Of Defrauding  Unsuspecting Victims

LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As scammers notice that their victims are getting used to how they operate, they find other strategies to defraud unsuspecting individuals. The new strategy is to call a random number and from the flow of the conversation, lie to the call receiver that a relative of theirs is sick and needs urgent […]

Travelers In Trouble For Allegedly Beating  Policewoman To Death

LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command said its men have arrested 16 suspects in connection with the murder of a female inspector in front of Taabaa Police Station in Khana local government area of the state. The incident occurred on April 25th while the policewoman identified as Christiana Erekere was on […]

Couple Allegedly Torture 9-Year-Old Daughter To Death Over Alleged  Witchcraft In Adamawa

LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian couple has allegedly tortured their daughter to death in Adamawa State, SaharaReporters has learnt.  The couple, Yakubu Isa Arisko, 36, and Veronica Linus, 34, reportedly conspired and murdered their daughter, Eunice Yakubu, whom they accused of practising witchcraft.  They reportedly tied the 9-year-old with a rope and left her in […]

FBI Arrests Nigerian Trying To Flee U.S. With family After Contract Procurement Scam

LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on April 2 took into custody Ifediora Oli, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States, for allegedly conniving with two persons to defraud the District of Columbia public transit system after securing a Covid-19 testing kit contract worth more than half a million dollars. […]

Ex-Miss Ecuador Beauty Queen Shot Dead By Masked Assassins In An Eatery

LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-THIS is the horrifying moment a former beauty queen was gunned down in a hail of bullets by assassins in broad daylight. Shocking CCTV footage shows two gunmen bursting into an eatery before killing the former Miss Ecuador contestant. The former beauty queen, seen in the footage wearing a blue top, was […]

C’River Speaker’s Security Details Battle Armed kidnappers In Shootout On Ikom-Calabar Highway

LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There were sporadic shootouts between security details attached to the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Elvert Ayambem, to disperse gunmen who attempted to kidnap commuters on the Ikom-Calabar federal highway. The incident happened on Sunday evening when the Speaker’s convoy was returning to Ikom after attending the Deputy […]

Nigerian Navy Rescues 250 Passengers From Boat Mishap In Rivers

LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Personnel of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, on Monday, rescued over 250 persons including children following a boat mishap, involving a cargo boat, MV Precious Emmanuel, along Buguma waterways in Asari-Toru local government area of Rivers State. The commercial boat, MV Precious Emmanuel, was conveying goods worth millions of Naira from […]

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