LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Goods worth millions of naira were destroyed when fire gutted a three-storey building housing warehouses with clothes and shoes in the popular Balogun market on Broad Street on Lagos Island. It was gathered that the fire at Thursday midnight and was put out by emergency responders but it started again around 3am….
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A public policy think tank, the NEO Africana Centre, has condemned the attack on the convoy of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, after a successful rally in Katsina on Monday. In a statement on Wednesday by its Director of Public Affairs, Mr Jenkins Udu entitled, “Mr President…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have turned down a N5. 3 million ransom which was paid to them with the old naira notes. They said the old notes will soon cease to become a legal tender hence their decision to reject it. Recall that the leader of the bandits, who raided Azara, Janjala and Kadara communities…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely one month to the 2023 general election, the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba, has deployed two new Commissioners of Police to Lagos and Ogun states, so as to boost security during and after the poll. The two new Commissioners, Frank Mba and Idowu Owohunwa, will be serving in Ogun and…
By Muiz Banire LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I have always contended that Nigeria as a country is a unique one in all ramifications. Is it the natural endowments of the country you want to consider? The strategic location of the country? The climate change challenges of being afflicted by all the three major consequences of desertification,…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected armed robber, Williams Abiodun, on Wednesday, narrated how his gang killed their victims and sold their vehicles in Benin, Edo State. Abiodun, while being paraded alongside 10 other suspects at the command headquarters in Edo State, said he and four members of his gang usually disguised as site workers to…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emiefele is alleged to be planning to release about N30 billion new redesigned currency notes to the presidential candidate of a popular political party in the next 3 days. Sources alleged that the release would be routed through the Managing Director…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Nigerians have been arrested in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) for allegedly running a prostitution ring. They are Sharon Blessing Chibuike, 38, Promise Ben David, 27, Chinedu Emmanuel Ibekweo, 19, and Esther Montse, 29. The quartet face crimes of Forced Detention with Intent Prostitution, Encouragement of Prostitution, Prostitution and…
