LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Attempts by some defiant traffickers to export hard drugs through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos; Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano have been foiled by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with 200 kilogrammes of the illicit substances seized from them….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWRANGERS)-A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport after reporting engine failure on Sunday, killing all seven people on board, the air force said. The plane, a Beechcraft King Air 350i, was on its way to the city of Minna, 110 kilometres (68 miles) northwest of the capital,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two persons are currently being grilled by operatives of the Foreign Exchange Malpractices Section of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, following their arrest over the seizure of 3,013,500 Saudi Riyal on Monday February 1, 2021 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The money, sealed in brown envelopes and transported…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In the lyrics of one of the songs of the late reggae music legend lucky Dube, “it takes a million people to build up a good reputation, but it takes one stupid fool to destroy everything they’ve done.” Luck ran out of a self acclaimed business man, Onu Oluchuckwu after he was…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-TVC News has confirmed that the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu worked the whole day in his office and left to receive President Muhammadu Buhari this evening as he arrived from Katsina. The IG escorted him to the villa before he went home. It had been speculated that Mohammed Adamu handed…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The #EndSARS protest has resumed in Abuja with the protest taken to the Force Headquarters and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. The protest resumed on Sunday with leading activists: Omoyele Sowore, Deji Adeyanju, Raphael Adebayo and Sidney Usman, leading the charge. According to those who reacted to the development, the protest in Lagos…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government has announced that international flights will resume on August 29. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced the new dates for resumption of flights at the bi-weekly Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Monday. He said the airports will open in batches beginning with Lagos and Abuja. President…