LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Private depots in Lagos and environs were deserted, yesterday, as the Dangote Petroleum Refinery rolls out its direct petrol supplies. Checks by Vanguard indicated that private depots were deserted because the operators expected to benefit from the direct supplies. A source that pleaded to be anonymous, said: “The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The publisher of Media Room Hub and former ThisDay reporter, Azuka Ogujiuba, has accused the Nigeria Police Force of harassment, assault, and unlawful detention over allegations of cyberbullying and defamation. Ogujiuba’s alleged harassment and assault add to growing concerns about the increasingly hostile treatment of journalists in Nigeria, particularly by the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Australian pilot has been killed after his plane carrying almost 200kg of cocaine wrapped in fake SpaceX packaging crashed into a sugarcane field in Brazil, local media reported. Authorities said the pilot was found dead outside the aircraft after it crashed in Coruripe, an area on Brazil’s tropical coastline, according to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police on Tuesday were investigating the death of a Black college student found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi, stirring online rumors that evoked the state’s history of Jim Crow-era racist violence even as authorities said there was no initial evidence of a crime. The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits in the early hours of yesterday attacked a mosque at Gidan Turbe village in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State, abducting no fewer than 40 worshipers. The attack came barely hours after a similar one at Godai village in Bukkuyum LGA of the state, kidnapping over 10 persons. This…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 16-year-old is in custody after officials said she is accused of shooting her mother in Galveston, Texas on Thursday evening. The Galveston Police Department said officers responded to a home in the 5100 block of Avenue Q just before 8 p.m. after a report that someone had been shot several times….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Coordinator of Malcolm Omirhobo Foundation and human right activist, Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to release detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) unconditionally. He equally urged the Government to stop playing double standards. Omirhobo who made the demand in his…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada has denied 1,596 asylum claims filed by Nigerians so far in 2025, fresh data from the Immigration and Refugee Board show. Sunday PUNCH reports that the figures, updated to August 21, indicate that Nigerian nationals filed 3,548 claims so far this year, of which 2,292 were accepted. This puts the acceptance…