LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Senior Public Health Specialist and Programme Manager for Non-Communicable Diseases at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Dennis Asare, has thrown a word of caution to the Ghanaian youth, with focus on the female population to desist from smoking shisha as it puts them at risk of contracting diseases such as breast…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Fulani men under the aegis of Gan Allah Fulani Development Association have agreed to work with the Ooni of Ife, Oba Eniitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi and security agencies to henceforth expose and flush out “criminal elements” among them. The group who said they are descendants of…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An official autopsy shows that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself by hanging, authorities said Friday. The 66-year-old pedophile died in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan last week, according to findings by the city Medical Examiner’s Office. The multimillionaire was being held on federal sex-trafficking raps that could have…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Customs Service has intercepted 21 contraband drugs valued at over N5 billion. The National Public Relations Officer of NCS, Assist. Comptroller Joseph Attah, disclosed this when he conducted newsmen round a warehouse where trucks of the intercepted items were parked at the Ikeja Training College of the service in Lagos…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prime suspect in the case of three missing girls from Takoradi, Ghana, Samuel Udoetuk, has reportedly revealed that the females were sold for N1.8m each in Nigeria. According to Bureau of National Investigations sources, Udoetuk confessed that the girls were sold to an operator of a baby factory at Onitsha in Anambra…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Activists and members of a civil society group, Global Integrity Crusade Network (GICN), have urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to order the arrest and prosecution of a former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Michael Kaase Aondoakaa (SAN), in the next seven days for alleged…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, and his party has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari was not qualified to have contested the poll and as such, should be disqualified by the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. Besides, the petitioners in their final address to…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted on Thursday when two merchant vessels came under attack in Cameroonian waters, sources said on Friday. “Seventeen Chinese and Ukrainians were kidnapped… (of whom) nine (are) Chinese who were abducted on one of the ships,” an official in the port of Douala told AFP….
