LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The DG/CEO of NIMC, Engr Abisoye Coker-Odusote, has stressed the importance of birth registration and that of National Identification Number (NIN) to foster development in Nigeria. This according to her is why the National Identity Management Commission and the National Population Commission (NPC) are collaborating on digital birth registration. Engr Coker-Odusote who…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian military attack that used drones to target rebels instead killed an unspecified number of civilians gathered for a religious celebration, authorities said Monday. The attack was the latest in recent errant bombings of local residents in Nigeria’s troubled regions. The attack on Sunday night in Tudun Biri village of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Parents who broke record when they welcomed nine babies at once (nonuplets) have finally returned home after 19 months in an intensive care clinic. Mother Halima Cissé, 27, and her husband Abdelkader Arby, 36, from Mali, spent almost two years at the specialist Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco, following the birth of their…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 16-year-old abducted female student of Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri in Kebbi State has given birth to a child in captivity, PRNigeria can authoritatively report. She is among 11 remaining students yet to be released after gunmen abducted over 100 students and eight teachers. They also killed a policeman in the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Evelyn Ogutu, a famous media personality from Kenya, passed away earlier today. Read on to learn how did Evelyn Ogutu die, what happened to her, and what was the cause of her death just after giving birth to twins. Ogutu was a widely known journalist in the country who had worked with…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, a Nigerian social crusader and widow of the late spokesperson of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, was delivered of twins – a boy and a girl – at a hospital in the United States of America on Wednesday. The PUNCH gathered that both mother and the babies are in excellent health…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies at once — after expecting seven, according to Mali’s Minister of Health and the Moroccan clinic where the nonuplets were born. It appeared to be the first time on record that a woman had given birth to nine surviving babies at once. The…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Oko-Afo Outpost of Lagos State Sector Command on Thursday rendered an assistance to a woman in labour while on transit in the state. The Sector Commander Coprs Commander Olusegun Ogungbemide in a statement by the FRSC Public Education Officer in Lagos, Route Commander…