LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The traditional ruler of the Ikate-Elegushi Kingdom, Saheed Ademola (Kusenla III), has declared a three-day Oro rite on non-indigenes and women from midnight to 5:30 a.m., including on Saturday’s governorship and state assembly election day. In a memo issued to the residents of Ikate-Elegushi, the monarch announced that there would be a…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Dan Amar of Dutse and district head of Basirka (Hakimi Basirka) in Jigawa State, Alhaji Muhammed Suleiman, died alongside his two children in an accident on Basirka Gwaram road, while on their way to Gwaram on Thursday. His wife and two of his children survived the accident, according to the Sarkin…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s most famous revolutionary Thomas Sankara has been reburied in the capital by the military junta – despite his widow and children boycotting the funeral. Sankara was laid to rest at the spot where he was assassinated in 1987. His immediate family wanted the reburial at a site that would “appease…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an exclusive interview Tuesday with The Associated Press. Francis…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have abducted the wife and four children of a member, Zamfara State House of Assembly, Aminu Ardo Jangebe. Also abducted were his two neighbours, Alhaji Yahaya and Sa,adu Mainama. Speaking to The PUNCH on the phone, an indigene of the town, Sani Abubakar said the bandits arrived the town around 11…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian army says it has found two more of the female students abducted by Boko Haram militants from a secondary school more than eight years ago. There was global outrage when Islamists seized nearly 300 girls in Nigeria’s north-eastern town of Chibok in 2014. Most of the victims have either been…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-In what will come across as a really startling development, three siblings have been found dead inside a parked car they were playing in at Owode Elede area of Ikorodu, The Nation has learnt. The kids identified as Oliseh, Daniel and Destiny Egba, three, six and eight years respectively, were feared to…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ex-Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra and presidential aspirant of PDP has advised Lagos State delegates to the party’s presidential primaries to remember their children while voting during the party’s primaries. Obi, who made the appeal when he met with Lagos PDP national delegates in Ikeja on Wednesday, told them not to be…