LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This is no dancing time for Senator Ademola Adeleke who is enmeshed in a forged certificate controversy. Developments in the last one week strongly portend that his legal problems are far from over as the case took a disturbing dimension with the emergence of an alleged confession by the principal of the…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 17,000 intending pilgrims from Nigeria may have missed this year’s hajj exercise, as Saudi authorities closed all entries to the Kingdom at midnight, yesterday. The Saudi government officially shut border points, including air, sea and land, two days before the day of Arafat, which is scheduled for Monday, August…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Imo on Friday arrested some women protesting, some semi nude, over the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for allegedly conducting an unlawful assembly. Some of them pulled off their clothes and danced naked, while others lay on the ground and dared…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Few days to this year’s Eid-el-Kabir festival, most major markets in Lagos and Ebonyi states were devoid of the expected bustling activities that usually herald the season. Prices of rams continue to increase, making it almost unaffordable for many Muslims. Activities at markets were still business as usual, with little or no…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Celebrated United Nations diplomat Kofi Annan has died. He was 80. Annan’s foundation announced his passing in Switzerland on Saturday. It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate, passed away peacefully…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Sports Minister Solomon Dalung has said they will not be scared by the world football governing body FIFA. The Minister told KweséESPN on Friday in Kampala that since Nigeria is a sovereign state, they will not bow to pressures from FIFA. Earlier in the week FIFA issued Nigeria with an ultimatum…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has visited the site of a four-storey building that collapsed in Abuja on Friday afternoon. At least 18 people are trapped beneath the rubble of the four-storey building which collapsed around 1.30pm in the Jabi area of Abuja on Friday. Our correspondent who was at the scene reported…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least eighteen persons are trapped under the rubble of a four-storey building which collapsed in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital on Friday, August 17. Unconfirmed reports said one person died when the four-storied building under construction collapsed on the workers and food sellers in the Jabi area of the city. Punch reports that…
