LAGOS JANUAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of businessmen and women, whose shops are located in the Alakuko and Dalemo areas, which are border communities in Lagos and Ogun states, were surprised on Wednesday as hoodlums demolished the properties. Some of the shops were said to have been robbed and the goods in them looted in an operation…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A report by Legit Naija has cautioned Nigerians to stop drinking ‘gari’ as per advice from a medical expert. According to the post, the call to stop the consumption of ‘garri’ was made by Dr. Boniface Okolo, the director of Public Health, Enugu state. According to him, this must be done to…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed robbers on Wednesday invaded the MTN office located in Tudun Wada area of Birnin Kebbi, the Kebbi State capital. The robbers, numbering three arrived at the office around 2.00pm on Wednesday and carted away nothing less than N4.5 million naira. The MTN manager in the state, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki narrated that…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The founder of Oko-Oloyun Worldwide and De-Fayus International, Alhaji Fatai Yusuf (Aka Oko Oloyun) has been shot dead. Oyo State Police Command on Thursday confirmed the murder of the popular traditional medical expert. Yusuf, the manufacturer of popular Yoyo Bitters and Fijk Flusher among other herbal products, was killed by unknown gunmen…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A banker implicated in the embezzlement and money-laundering case against Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, has been found dead in Lisbon. Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, 45, managed the account of oil firm Sonangol, formerly chaired by Ms Dos Santos, at the small Portuguese lender EuroBic. His death, on Wednesday, was reported…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Intense gunfire between two rival jihadist groups in northeast Nigeria has left several fighters dead, two sources with close knowledge of the incident told AFP on Monday. Fighters in pickup trucks from a Boko Haram faction loyal to Abubakar Shekau stormed a camp belonging to rival IS-aligned Islamic State West Africa Province…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Clerk of the National Assembly and Clerk of the Senate, from giving effect to the judgment that sacked Ifeanyi Ubah from the Senate. The court, in an interim order that was granted by Justice Taiwo Taiwo,…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil society groups are currently protesting at the embassies of the United States and United Kingdom respectively in Abuja, demanding a visa ban on all seven members of the Supreme Court panel that delivered judgment in the Imo State governorship election case that produced Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress as…
