LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The management of the Kano zoological garden has announced the capture of the lion that escaped from its cage, after hours of searching. Saidu Gwadabe, head of the zoological garden, told BBC Hausa on Sunday morning that the animal was spotted inside the zoo premises but in a cage where goats were…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will today (Monday) depart Abuja to attend a three-day Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia. The event, billed to take place on October 23-25, will focus on exploration and expansion of opportunities in security, trade and investment, science and technology, and gas production between Russia and Africa. A statement by…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Abducted Assistant Commissioner of Police, Musa Rabo, has been rescued. Rabo, who is in charge of Suleja Area Command, Niger State, was rescued unhurt, a statement late on Sunday by Force Public Relations Officer, Deputy Commissioner of Police Frank Mba, said. He was abducted on Saturday at about 3:30pm, a statement by…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-18-year-old Elikor Ehud, pictured above, has been arrested by men of the Ejigbo police station in Lagos state for allegedly storming a church in the area and carting away the church’s tithes and offering. A statement released by the state police command’s spokesperson, Bala Elkana, says on October 1st, one Pastor Moses Nwoke …
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Bank Group has granted Nigeria a loan of $3bn for its ailing power sector. Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed announced the development Sunday during a chat with Nigerian journalists covering the 2019 Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank Group in Washington DC. She said the loan will help…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Seun Kuti, Afrobeat musician and youngest son of legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti, pulled off an electrifying performance with his band, Egypt 80 at the New Afrika Shrine for Felabration on 20th of October, 2019. The venue of the annual event, which was tagged, ‘From Lagos With Love’, the New Afrikan Shrine, Ikeja,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Area Commander, Suleja Area Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Mr. Isa Rambo, has been kidnapped by gunmen around Kaduna, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. A senior police officer told our correspondent that Rambo, who is an Assistant Commissioner of Police, was kidnapped on his way to Jos on Saturday evening. The…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Government Friday alerted residents on the rise of sea water level resulting in the inability of the lagoon to discharge water into the ocean causing backflow into the drainage channels. In a statement by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello, the officials of the state…
