LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s leader said Tuesday that his government will embark on “massive education” of youth as one way to tackle the increasing kidnappings for ransom now threatening the capital city along with the rest of the country’s conflict-hit north. President Bola Tinubu won last year’s election after promising to rid the West African…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Palpable fear has gripped residents of Sagwari Layout Estate Dutse, Abuja after the kidnappers who abducted ten persons from the area killed three of their victims. DAILY POST recalls that the daredevil gunmen had on January 7 invaded the estate with highly sophisticated weapons and abducted at least ten persons. Reports emerged…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The criminal elements who abducted Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriyar and his six children are demanding the sum of N60 million as ransom for their release. The victims were abducted on Tuesday night, January 2, 2024, in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory. According to the Daily Trust, the bandits later…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran Nollywood Actor Zack Orji has undergone a brain surgery. The Minister of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, disclosed this after she visited the ailing actor on 2 January at a private hospital in Wuse, Abuja. Nneka Anibeze, a Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the minister, shared…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Joint Task Force on City Sanitation arrested 19 hoodlums for attacking the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) in Wuse, Abuja on Monday, December 18. The hoodlums stormed the premises in the early hours of Monday over the demolition of a Mechanic Village in Kubwa, by the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Thursday collapsed at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja and was rushed to the hospital. SaharaReporters learnt that Akpabio slumped while seeing President Bola Tinubu off. Tinubu and other dignitaries had gathered at the Congress Hall of the hotel for a colloquium to mark the 61st birthday…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Dawaki, Abuja, on Monday, convicted four Boko Haram financiers. The convicts are Modu Aisami, Zana Zarama, Umar Mohammed and Bunu Kame. A statement by the Special Assistant on Communication and Publicity to the Attorney-General of the Federation, Kamarudeen Ogundele, said the prosecution, led by the AGF…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major accident was averted on Sunday after a Boeing 737 aircraft with the registration number: 5N-BYQ belonging to Aero Contractors nose-stucked after landing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja. The serious incident occured at about 10:47am after the plane, which departed the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos in the…