LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Jubilation erupted spontaneously in major towns of Umuahia and Aba on Wednesday after INEC declared Alex Otti of the Labour Party the winner of March 18 governorship election. The jubilant residents of the two cities danced round the major streets and made bonfire on roads. Fireworks of various kinds also sparkled in…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-It was a beehive of activities at the Police College, Ikeja, in Lagos, yesterday, as 15 senior police officers, including the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in-charge of South West zone, DIG Babatunde Kokumo, ended their 35-year career in the Nigeria Police Force. Also among the retired officers were AIG Vivian Okenedo, the first…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The ward of Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and Chairman, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, has suspended him. His suspension is contained in a letter signed by Muazu Kabiri, an official of the party in Gwadabawa Ward of Jimeta. According to Kabiri, the SGF did…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Some members of the House of Representatives clashed on Wednesday over a bill seeking to legalise cultivation, sale and use of cannabis, also known as marijuana, for commercial purposes. Two members of the House, Benjamin Kalu and Olumide Osoba, had sponsored a fresh bill seeking to amend the National Drug Law Enforcement…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police at the Ikoyi Division, Ikoyi, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria have arrested a cook from the Benin Republic, Amoussou Wilfred, 35, and charged him before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court for allegedly administering poisonous substance into the food he prepared for his employer, Musibau Akanji Fashanu, 80 years; his wife, Jumoke Fashanu and…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Anambra-based fiery cleric, Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, popularly known as Odumeje has dismissed the rumour saying that he declared he would die soon. The cleric’s aide, Amaka Okoye said the prophet did not make such statement. Several media platforms (not The Nation) had reported that Odumeje, during Sunday service at Mountain of Holy Ghost…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A total of N453.90 billion was approved today by the Federal Executive Council for the purchase of rolling stock, operational, and maintenance equipment for the currently under-construction Kano-Maradi standard gauge rail line. The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after this week’s Federal Executive Council meeting…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria, in a statement on Tuesday, has advised against interference in the ongoing legal processes challenging the outcome of Nigeria’s 2023 general elections. On its website, the mission described the use of ethnically charged rhetoric before, during, and after the governorship election in Lagos, Kano…
