LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The campaign team of Labour Party Presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi, has explained why his principal met with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, erstwhile Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido and former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, in Abuja. Online platforms and social media were awash with viral photographs of Obi’s closed-door meeting…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An officer of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdulwahab Magaji, serving in the Federal Capital Territory, reportedly shot himself dead in his residence on Binta Street, Farm Estate area, Abuja. PUNCH Metro gathered from a senior law enforcement officer that the incident happened last Monday. According to the source, the family of the…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An aircraft, Embraer 145, belonging to a premium services provider Xejet Airlines has skidded off the runway and plunged into the grass areas at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos State. The aircraft with 52 passengers and the crew members on board had departed Abuja before the incident at the runway…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello have decided to submit himself to the Federal High Court in Abuja for arraignment on June 13. Bello’s lead counsel, Abdulwahab Mohammed gave the undertaking to Justice Emeka Nwite on Friday shortly after the request for suspension of trial by the defendant was rejected…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy occurred on Wednesday morning when a Toyota Corolla car got stuck in a bad spot at Fomon bus stop, Ewu Owa, Gberigbe road, Ikorodu Lagos. According to eyewitness accounts, three occupants of the car came down and began making efforts to push it out of the deep spot covered with flood…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Commuters in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, and other cities across the country have bemoaned the hike in transportation fares owing to the current fuel scarcity. DAILY POST reports that queues have worsened in many filling stations across the country, with Abuja as one of the worst hit areas. While some…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residential areas within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, are gradually becoming uninhabitable due to refuse dumps. DAILY POST took a tour of some places such as Karu Site, Jikwoyi, Kurudu, Kubwa, Gwarinpa, Utako and other places under Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, and discovered not just the indiscriminate dumping of refuse by…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a suit instituted by a Coalition of Northern Groups seeking the exit of Igbos in the South East out of Nigeria. The suit by the group of elders and politicians from the North, led by Nastura Shariff, Balarabe…