LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All outbound flights were grounded until around 9am Eastern Time (2pm GMT) as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) worked to restore its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which alerts pilots of potential hazards along a flight route. As of 3pm GMT 4,948 flights within, into or out of the US have…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely after her erstwhile boss, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, delivered a scathing review of the dismal performance of the regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), the former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, dropped a terse, but caustic remark about the booby-trap 2023 budget. Obasanjo asked Nigerian youths, about 65 per cent…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Plateau police command has arrested one Albarka Sukuya, a pastor, for allegedly kidnapping himself and collecting ransom from church members. Alfred Alabo, the command’s public relations officer, made this known in a statement on Wednesday. He said the suspect was arrested by the police in November 2022 after incidents of staging…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to declare open the 9th African Shippers’ Day in Lagos. The event will be hosted by the the nation’s Port Economic Regulator, Nigerian Shippers’ Council in collaboration with Union of African Shippers’ Councils (UASC) will hold the 9th edition of African Shippers’ Day in Lagos from Monday…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Management of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH on Tuesday said the hospital lost about 150 nurses to Japa syndrome in three years even as it maintained that the hospital has been repositioned to reduce medical tourism. At a press briefing tagged: “First briefing of the Chief Medical Director on…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Turkish Airlines flight number 606 was today forced to return to the ground after a bird strike during take-off. The A330 however had to fly around Kampala and Entebbe for over an hour to burn fuel to achive the right weight for landing. According to the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority, the regulator of…
LAGOS JANUARY12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Immigration Service ( NIS) on Tuesday said about 140,000 international passports are still uncollected nationwide. The service spokesman, Deputy Comptroller of Immigration Service ( DCI) Mr Tony Akuneme, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) , when he paid an official visit to the Alausa…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Secretary-General of the Afenifere group, Mr Sola Ebiseni, has condemned the statement made by the senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District, Nicholas Tofowomo, that Peter Obi of the Labour Party could not win the forthcoming presidential election as his party had no structure. Ebiseni, who is the South West Coordinator for…
