LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission has approved the dismissal of seven senior Police Officers over gross misconduct. The Commission also approved the reduction in rank of ten other officers. The decisions were taken at the on-going 15th Plenary Meeting of the Commission which is expected to end on Thursday, October 6th, 2022. The…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A clash between inmates armed with guns and knives inside the Latacunga prison in central Ecuador on Monday left at least 15 people dead and 20 injured, authorities said. Officials attributed the fighting to national and international drug trafficking groups which have turned the Andean nation’s prisons into the scene of repeated…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government, yesterday, described the purported list of nominees for national honours being circulated by some online media organisations as fake. The list of nominees, which has now gone viral on the Internet, has however generated criticisms, especially over the calibre of people nominated for awards. But in a statement signed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The people of Mopa town in the Mopa-Muro Local Government Area of Kogi State have been thrown into mourning following the mysterious death of four members of a family after reportedly eating a cassava flour meal known as ‘Amala.’ The deceased died in quick succession between Friday, September 30 and Sunday, October…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A son of a hunter in Dutse Gogo town near Kaiama, headquarters of Kaiama local government of Kwara State, Abubakar Abubakar, on Sunday shot dead his junior brother identified as Yusuf Abubakar while testing the efficacy of a gunshot protective charm newly procured by their father. The hunter, Abubakar Abubakar, who is…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abdullahi Abubakar, an Islamic cleric in Plateau state, is one of the 437 persons nominated by the federal government to receive national honours. Abubakar has been nominated to receive the award of member of the order of the Niger (MON). The awards will be presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on October 11…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Investigations have revealed that over 8,000 stranded overtime cargoes, valued at about N3 trillion, are currently littering the country’s three major seaports – Apapa, Tin Can and Onne – with little or no effort made to find a lasting solution to the nuisance caused by the scraps. Findings revealed that over 2,000…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ayorinde Owolabi, brother of the late hotelier, Olugbenga Owolabi, who was killed in August after coming to Nigeria to invest in hospitality business, has said the United States is involved in the case. Olugbenga was a US citizen, living in Maryland, US. He came to Nigeria and built a hotel in his…
