LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, and a political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi have paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Ondo state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, in Ibadan. The former Anambra State governor revealed this via his X handle (formerly Twitter) on…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NESRANGERS)-At least 4 persons have died after gunmen attacked Wisdom Supermarket in Karu, Nasarawa, just on the outskirts of Abuja. Shoppers were at the supermarket last night Jan. 2, when armed robbers stormed the venue at about 8:50pm, shooting, demanding money and ransacking everywhere. Videos taken at the scene after the criminals…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger plane carrying nearly 400 people burst into a ball of fire at a Tokyo airport Tuesday when it collided with a coast guard jet — killing at least five crew members taking aid to victims of a deadly earthquake. Horrifying video showed the Japan Airlines plane suddenly burst into flames…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Dhaka court sentenced Muhammad Yunus — who won the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering microloans to some of Bangladesh’s poorest — to 6 months in jail for labor law violations. A labor inspector had found that employees of Grameen Telecom, of which Yunus, 83, is chairman, were denied benefits including leave…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas leader and a linchpin between the group and terrorist affiliates in Iran and Hezbollah, was killed in an Israeli strike in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, according to Lebanon’s state-run news agency and the Hezbollah-linked al-Mayadeen media outlet. Arouri, who had a $5 million U.S. information bounty…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, has decried the rampaging gunmen attack in Aguata local government area of Anambra State which claimed the lives of two police officers and a vigilante. Obi, who expressed regret of the attacks which also resulted in the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger plane on Thursday landed on cracking ice on a notorious Russian river due to a pilot’s mistake. Thirty passengers and four crew were safely evacuated on foot from the Polar Airlines An-24 propeller plane in Yakutia, Siberia‘s coldest region. The pilot mistook the frozen Kolyma River for a small landing strip…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A US-based media company, Bloomberg L.P., has predicted a continued decline of the Nigerian naira in 2024, potentially making it the worst-performing currency globally for the second year in a row. Bloomberg’s market analysis reveals a staggering 55% depreciation of the naira this year, reaching about 1,043 to the dollar as of…
