LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The number of persons that lost their lives to the bank robbery in Offa, Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State, on Thursday may have risen to 30, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. This was a sharp increase in the 12, comprising six policemen and six civilians, that was reported on Friday. Several…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has disclosed that the club was offered the chance to sign Manchester United’s Paul Pogba during the January transfer window. Guardiola told reporters on Friday, “I said no. We don’t have the money to buy Pogba because he is so expensive,” as he attacked the conduct of…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH, (NEWSRANGERS)-In a shocking case from Kolkata, a 43-year-old man was arrested for reportedly keeping the corpse of his dead mother in a deep freezer for almost three years to collect her pension every month using her thumb impression. The incident came to light after the mutilated body of the woman was found…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWRANGERS)-A Staffordshire Terrier mixed-breed dog was set to be put to sleep after autopsy results on Friday confirmed it mauled its owners to death in the German city of Hanover. The incident, which shocked Germany and prompted a debate about the rules of dog ownership, saw a 52-year-old woman and her 27-year-old…
s LAGOS (APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, has dragged the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to court for defamation of character. Mohammed had on Friday, last week, mentioned Secondus in the first list of those he claimed looted the nation’s treasury. He alleged that…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-She was found guilty on charges of bribery, coercion and abuse of power, and ordered to pay a fine of 18 billion won (US$17 million). “The amount of bribery the accused received or demanded in collaboration with Choi amounts to more than 23 billion won,” Judge Kim Se-Yoon said, referring to Park’s…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian doctors may start refusing to attend to patients with Lassa fever if they are not provided with the right equipment to protect themselves. Dr Mike Ozovehe Ogirima, president of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), told BBC Yoruba that eight doctors had died of the disease since the beginning of the year…
By Philip Obaji Jr. The first animals to make headlines in Nigeria were the rats. The rodents had reportedly occupied the president’s office while he was in London for 103 days last year, receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment. When a frail-looking President Muhammadu Buhari returned home last August, he discovered the rats had wreaked…
