LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS) — Police in the South African city of Cape Town used water cannons Wednesday while dispersing and arresting hundreds of foreigners, including children, who have camped for weeks outside the U.N. refugee agency’s office. Some of the refugees and asylum-seekers told local media they are seeking to be relocated outside the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than eight cows were killed by lightning at a mountain in Oyinmo Quarters, Ikare Akoko the headquarters of Akoko North East Local Government Area of Ondo State late on Tuesday evening. The incident happened barely a month after 36 cows were killed by lightning in Ijare town in Ifedore Local…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has arrested its men allegedly involved in a fracas that resulted in the death of two persons in Mabera area in Sokoto State. PRNigeria gathered that the Service was disturbed by the alleged killing of the civilians on October 20, 2019, as reported by an online newspaper Daily…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State House of Assembly has threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on the former governor of the state, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, and four others who served in his administration as commissioners. This decision followed two preliminary reports presented on Thursday by two ad-hoc committees set up by the House…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Department of State Services has arrested former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force, Abdul-Rashid Maina. Maina, who was embroiled in N2.1 billion pension scam was arrested through a joint effort by the EFCC and DSS, sources told SaharaReporters. According to the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The cop who arrested Prophet T.B. Joshua has made a chilling confession about the operation that saw the Synagogue, Church of All Nations leader spending two weeks behind bars for dealing and trafficking drugs. The clip has been shared by TB Joshua’s Emmanuel TV. It details what went into the operation for…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Policemen attached to the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences have arrested 28 suspected miscreants and 15 illegal street traders at various locations around Afrika Shrine, Alausa, Ikeja. Chairman of the taskforce, Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed this in a statement by the agency’s head of public affairs, Adebayo Taofiq, on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A middle age man, suspected to be mentally deranged was reported to have strolled into a banking hall of a new generation bank in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, on Tuesday and began to pack cash from the drawers of the bank tellers . Oriental news report. The report disclosed that although…
