LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The management committee of Masjid Abdullahi Bin Zubbair in Madina Quarters, Bauchi State, has removed its imam, Dahiru Abubakar, over allegations that he used sermons to campaign for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election. The committee also rejected an alleged proposal by Mr Abubakar to rename the mosque after the president. The committee’s chairman,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)- – Polaris Bank has reinforced its commitment to environmental sustainability with a tree-planting exercise at the Lekki Conservation Centre, Lagos, in collaboration with the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), as part of its ongoing efforts to promote climate action, environmental conservation and sustainable community development. The exercise, held on Monday, builds…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-Notorious bandit leader Muhammad Gwaska has displaced residents of Birnin Doki in the troubled Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara State after they resisted pressure to work at mining sites under his control. The incident, which occurred on 15 October, saw dozens of villagers forced to walk about a 15-kilometre distance from…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) yesterday said the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola diagnosed in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has to do with a diplomat whose condition has deteriorated into “multi-organ failure”. On Tuesday, Health Minister, Muhammad Ali Pate, had announced that a female patient who had…
By Valentine Obienyem LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-There are political relationships that begin as a matter of convenience and others that grow out of a convergence of convictions, records and aspirations. My appreciation of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso belongs to the latter category. As he celebrates his 70th birthday on 21 October 2026, I find…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Super Eagles players have wished Clemens Westerhof a quick recovery as the Dutch coach battles colon cancer in the Netherlands, The PUNCH reports. Westerhof is in critical condition at Rijnstate Hospital in Arnhem, his hometown. His wife, Lilian, revealed that he was taken to the hospital last Wednesday. The 86-year-old had…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-According to Euro News Colombian police have seized 7.6 tonnes of cocaine bound for the Netherlands at the port of Cartagena, President Abelardo de la Espriella announced on Tuesday. “The National Police has just achieved the largest cocaine seizure in the port of Cartagena in the last 10 years,” he wrote on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of students and teachers marched through the streets of the Greek capital of Athens Wednesday, calling for affordable student housing and more state investment in education, as protests that have swept Europe spread further. Similar protests were being held in several cities in Greece, including Thessaloniki in the north and the…
