LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A veteran journalist and one of Nigeria’s most celebrated columnists, Peter Enahoro, is dead. Enahoro, popularly known by his pen name, Peter Pan, died in London, the United Kingdom on Monday, aged 88. The development was announced in a terse statement by Nigeria’s foremost female journalist, Ms Bunmi Sofola. The statement…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of climate change activists who deflated the tires of 43 gas guzzling SUVs in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood last Wednesday night told Yahoo News that they think their aggressive action is necessary to draw attention to carbon emissions. “We’ve generated media coverage in the 17 countries we’ve been active in,…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet-to-be-identified male meat seller has slumped and died while attending to a customer on Branco Street, in the Mafoluku area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened on Monday around 5pm when the deceased was attending to a customer in the community. An eyewitness who identified himself simply…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Foreign governments evacuated diplomats, staff and others from Sudan on Sunday as rival generals battled for a ninth day with no sign of a truce that had been declared for a major Muslim holiday. While world powers like the U.S. and Britain airlifted their diplomats from the capital of Khartoum, Sudanese desperately sought to…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Awka Muslim Community has explained that their invitation to the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, to their mosque was to fraternise with him as they always did in the past, and to encourage him on his journey to New Nigeria, not minding the falsehoods peddled against…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some gunmen have kidnapped the Federal Commissioner representing Bayelsa State at the National Population Commission, Mrs Gloria Izonfuo. She was said to have been abducted on Sunday evening around the Ogbakiri junction along the East-West Road in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. Izonfuo was travelling to Port Harcourt, Rivers State…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A plane carrying the Arsenal women’s team back from their Champions League semi-final first leg with Wolfsburg burst into flames on the runway on Sunday evening. The incident occurred at the Braunschweig Wolfsburg Airport after a bird flew into the engine shortly before it was due to take off, causing a loud…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Given his campaign promises in 2014 and 2018, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has reneged on several fronts in the eight years he served, leaving Nigerians with many unfulfilled expectations, STEPHEN ANGBULU writes On Friday, May 29, 2015, thousands of Nigerians gathered at Eagles Square, Abuja, as millions more followed…
