LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it’s delighted that the girls abducted on 19 February 2018 from a school in Dapchi, Yobe state, northeast Nigeria were returned safely to their families. The Nigerian government confirmed early on Wednesday that 105 girls out of the 110 abducted have gained their freedom while five…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has described the events leading to the kidnap and release of the Dapchi schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgents as a scam by the APC-led government. The Presidency confirmed the release of 101 out of 110 schoolgirls kidnapped from the Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, Yobe…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that his company “made mistakes” in protecting user data obtained by Cambridge Analytica, but said steps already taken and new policies unveiled Wednesday would prevent developers from misappropriating such information in the future. Part regret, part explanation and part announcement of strategies to come, Zuckerberg’s first…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)– The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) on Wednesday strongly supported the move by the Federal Government on its refusal to sign the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The Manufacturers Association frowned at the contents of the agreement, noting that it will lead to gross unemployment in the country…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram on Wednesday returned the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapped from the Government Girls School in Yobe. Report reaching NewsRangers revealed that the insurgents group returned the girls in six vehicles, an episode similar to how they were taken away. Report from TVC which disclosed that newsmen where not allowed to witness…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A 15-year-old pupil at the Community Secondary School, Akenfa-Epie, in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, identified only as Emmanuel, has been arrested with a gun. Emmanuel was allegedly arrested on Monday with a locally-made pistol during lecture hours. It was learnt that the teenager was apprehended while in school…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)- A strange disease, described as a “mysterious epidemic”, has killed about eight students of Government Science Secondary School, Kurfi, Katsina State. The development was said to have forced the state’s Board for Science and Technical Education, on Monday, to shut down the school indefinitely while its students were sent home, Daily…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS) – A Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Ija-Ugbo area of Arogbo Ijaw, Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State on Tuesday collapsed, killing a pregnant woman, Dali Gunuboh, and five other persons. The names of other victims of the building collapse were given as Morenike Bubuma, Margret Goloba, Mayama Goloba and…
