, Pulls Out, 32 Generals LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-All the retired Generals were personnel of the medical corps, were two Major Generals and 30 Brigadier Generals. They had voluntarily retired from the service after putting in 35 years or more of meritorious service to the nation. In his farewell remarks on behalf of other retiring…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Borno State Police Command said it has arrested a housewife, Fatima Abubakar, 25, for allegedly killing her husband, Goni Abbah, with poison. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri, said that the suspect was arrested on October 19 by…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of Kenneth Ike Ayogu, 29, a patent medicine dealer at Narayi in Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna State has accused officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) of torturing their son to death in custody. They insisted that he was severely tortured to death inside their cell after…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Management of Realnews Magazine and Publications Limited, publishers of Realnews Magazine Online, has announced that His Excellency, Brigadier General Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, will deliver the Realnews 10th Anniversary Lecture. Brig Gen. Marwa’s acceptance to deliver the lecture was communicated to Realnews in a…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-When 17-month-old Nadira fell sick with a cough and flu, her mother Agustina Maulani bought her some paracetamol cough syrup from a health centre in south Jakarta. “I gave her medicine every four hours, because her fever refused to go down. She would recover, but then have a fever again. In the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 141 people died when a pedestrian suspension bridge collapsed in India’s western state of Gujarat. A local official said most of those who had died were women, children or elderly. The bridge in Morbi had been reopened just a week ago after repairs. There was overcrowding on the bridge at…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-By the time Ifeanyin Ashley returned home from work, floodwaters had swept through his bungalow which housed his wife, children, and parents in Ogbaru, in Nigeria’s south-eastern Anambra state, leaving his armchairs soaked and his bed covered in mud. Because the water had nearly reached knee level, he had to raise his…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons were confirmed dead and several others injured on Wednesday when a Bus Rapid Transit vehicle rammed into a market fence at Alapere in the Ketu area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the BRT, with number plate KSF-940XX, had a brake failure when the incident happened around 7am. It…
