LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 45-year-old hunter, Kwabena Bronya, 45, has accidentally been shot dead by a gun in possession of his elder brother Kwadjo Nkrumah, 36, while on their way to poach in Pamuruso Forest in the Ashanti Region. The deceased and the suspect were siblings and both lived at Asibe-Nkwanta near Nynahin in the…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Governor, the Henry Seriake Dickson has condemned what he called the constant demonization of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, by the APC. He described the action of APC as childish and uncalled for. While noting that the looters lists were a distraction on the polity, the governor advised the Federal…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State government, yesterday, arraigned an immigration officer, Umar Mohammed, before a Lagos high court, sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Igbosere, over an allegation of assault. The state government had in the charge marked: LD/120518c/2022 alleged that Mohammed unlawfully assaulted his colleague, one Oluwafemi Adeyemi Badiru, by slapping him in his…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (Nimet) has given reasons for the continuous rainfalls at this time of the year in the country. Nimet through its Central Forecast Office (CFO), which was signed by Prof. Mansur Matazu, its Director-General, attributed the rainfalls to an opening that linked mid-latitude trough with the thermal-lows over West-Africa….
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court, Abuja, has adjourned until June 29, hearing in a preliminary objection filed by Mr Adams Oshiomhole challenging the court’s jurisdiction to entertain the fundamental rights enforcement suit he instituted against the Edo government. Justice Ahmed Mohammed on Wednesday, adjourned the matter after taking arguments from parties in the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A standard gauge rail being planned from Kano State in Nigeria to Maradi in Niger Republic is one of the projects the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), plans to fund with the fresh external loans he is asking the National Assembly to approve for his regime, The PUNCH has learnt. Buhari…
http://ift.tt/2vdS326 IGP Ibrahim Idris LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)A mob on Thursday killed a policeman over the death of a woman and two children at a checkpoint on Owerri Road, Onitsha, Anambra state. Witnesses said that the incident occurred at 3:30p.m. when the policeman attempted to stop an articulated vehicle loaded with sand. According to the…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A herbalist, Femi Emmanuel, is now with the police in Kwara State for allegedly causing the death of a 45-year-old woman and a mother of two, Mrs Tawakalitu Mukaila, in his house. It was gathered that the death occurred in Emmanuel’s house at Ila-Odo-owa, Oke-Ero LGA, after Tawakalitu, a trader and resident…