LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested a couple (name withheld) over alleged self-kidnap for N5 million ransom. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday. Hundeyin said that the husband, a 53-year-old technician and wife, 48 years old body…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A vulcaniser, simply identified as Bolaji, was killed on Saturday after loose stray tyres from an articulated vehicle knocked him down in front of his vulcaniser stand, at Fakunle Area, Osogbo, Osun. The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the accident, which occurred at about 7.00 a.m, left many sympathisers traumatised, as…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has postponed a census due to take place next week and a new date will be set by the incoming government, the information ministry said on Saturday as it announced the latest delay to the country’s first census in 17 years. The census had been scheduled for May 3-7, but the…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has reminded students across the country of the need to take their education more seriously, saying that good education, when combined with right attitude and behaviour would open many doors for them in life. Obi, a very vocal evangelist of education, made the…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Turkish evacuation plane coming into land at an airbase outside Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, has been fired at, Turkey’s defence ministry has said. No-one was injured and the plane landed safely at Wadi Seidna airfield, where it was being checked. Sudan’s army blamed paramilitary fighters for firing at the aircraft and damaging…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A ‘deeply religious’ asylum seeker deliberately starved her child to death during lockdown in a bid to stave off Covid, a court heard. Nigerian-born mother Olabisi Abubakar is accused of the manslaughter of her son, Taiwo, after the malnourished boy was found dead at the family home in Cardiff on June 29,…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two U.S. Army helicopters collided and crashed Thursday in Alaska while returning from a training flight, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth. Two of the soldiers died at the scene of the crash near Healy, Alaska, and a third died on the way to a hospital in Fairbanks. A fourth soldier…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has ordered the freezing of N522.5 million allegedly kept in 24 banks by a businessman, Francis Uzuegbu, and his company, Mac DE Frank International. The businessman and his firm allegedly owe Ecobank Plc and its parent company, ETI Specialised Resolution Company. The judge, Chukwuejekwu Aneke,…
