LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Mpape area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja have reported a ‘volcanic eruption-like incident’ with some inflammable substances emitting smoke from the cliff of the hills in the area. A Federal Government delegation comprising the Minister of Solid Mineral Abubakar Bawa Bwari and his FCT counterpart Muhammad Musa Bello…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki is currently leading former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in an online poll on twitter ahead of the presidential primaries of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The poll posted on the twitter handle @PDP_RIVERS called on Nigerians to vote for the candidate whom they want…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Air Force has confirmed the death of one of the pilots in the two ill fated F-7Ni jets that crashed in Abuja, on Thursday. A statement by Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, Director of Public Relations and Information Nigerian Air Force said “It is with a heavy heart that I regretfully…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two fighter jets belonging to the Nigerian Air Force collided during a flying exercise as part of the 58th Independence Day Anniversary, the Air Force said Friday. One plane was seen crashing and engulfed in flame around Mashafa Road in Area 1 of Mpape, Abuja following a collision. A witness said earlier…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has identified communities in four states and Abuja as locations where major earthquake may likely occur in the country. The Director General of NASRDA, Prof. Seidu Mohammed, disclosed this on the sideline of the second Engr. Brig. Gen. M.O Agu (rtd) Annual Distinguished Lecture…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja met, for the first time, with the newly appointed Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Magaji Bichi, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. When Bichi was ushered into the president’s office by protocol officials, he was asked by the president if they had met…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nura Ilyasu, the man who climbed a telecommunications mast in Abuja on Wednesday to protest the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally descended. He came down from the mast on Thursday. Ilyasu touched ground at 11:25am voluntarily, after security operatives acceded to his request that he must address the press…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An undergraduate of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Nura Iliyasu, has reportedly embarked on a one-man protest by climbing to the top of a 50-meter-mast in Abuja to object to alleged bad leadership of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Iliyasu, 26, will spend the next seven days starting from today,…