LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned to February 28 for three sureties of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to produce him in court or show cause why each of them should not forfeit his N100 million bail bond. Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe and two others…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Aishatu Abdullahi, one of the schoolgirls that escaped Boko Haram’s Monday attack on Dapchi town of Yobe State, has said some of the girls were abducted. According to her, not all the girls escaped the armed insurgents’ attack. The Police in Yobe state on Tuesday disclosed that no life was lost in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Passengers of A Dana aircraft, number 9J0363, flying from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State narrowly escaped death as the aircraft overshot the Port Harcourt runway. This is coming almost six years after the airline’s service from Abuja to Lagos crashed, killing all the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Directorate Defence Information, Defence Headquarter (DHQ), has called for a collaboration effort with WorldStage Newsonline, Nigeria’s leading online news platform for the appropriate dissemination of information about the activities of the military across the country. Speaking on Tuesday during a courtesy visit to the WorldStage office in Abuja, Brigadier General John Agim,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected Boko Haram members have attacked Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, in Burasari local government area of Yobe state. The attack was confirmed by the Yobe state commissioner of police, Abdulmaliki Sunmonu. Sumonu confirmed the attack in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He said: “At about 5.30 p.m today,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)- Nigeria’s state oil firm said on Tuesday it had spent $5.8 billion on fuel imports since late 2017, as it combats a fuel shortage that has left people queuing for hours at filling stations and hobbled an already-struggling economy. “The corporation’s intervention became necessary following the inability of the major and…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Bobsledders from Nigeria and Jamaica made history at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Tuesday. In the two-women bobsleigh event, Nigeria’s Seun Adigun and Akuoma Omeoga became the first bobsled team to represent an African nation. Alongside skeleton athlete Simidele Adeagbo, they are also the first athletes from their country…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Calabar carnival activities in Cross River State is to gulp over four billion Naira while hiring of helicopter to cover the event was allocated N500 million. Similarly, N500 million was allocated for the payment of the five bands and another N500 million for other cost associated with the celebration. Consequently, the total…
