LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal lawmakers are again smarting for a showdown with their leadership and the presidency once they resume from their annual vacation. The mutual ethnic suspicion in the polity will again reverberate in the consideration of the controversial National Water Resources Bill 2020, Nigerian Tribune investigation revealed. The bill which was shut down…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A cargo plane carrying food, motorbikes and cash has crashed shortly after takeoff from the airport in the South Sudanese capital of Juba. Witnesses reported seeing several bodies. The Antonov An-26 aircraft was travelling to the city of Aweil in the northwest of the country. Videos and photos circulating on social media…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Anambra State Police Command has arrested a middle aged woman, Miss Franca Udokwu of Nkpor Community, Idemili North Local Government Area for allegedly dumping her newly born baby boy in a pit toilet. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Mr. Haruna Muhammed (SP) in a statement, said operatives attached to…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Malam Wada Maida, Chairman, Board of Directors of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), is dead. A member of his family, Lawal Sale Maida, said Maida died in Abuja on Monday. He was aged 70. He was not ill when he died Monday night. He went to the office as usual in…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of the defunct Gongola state, Wilberforce Juta is dead. Juta was reported to have died on Saturday morning, August 15, after a brief illness. The governor of Adamawa state, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri who confirmed the death of Wilberforce said he received the news with shock and grief. Fintiri described…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are fears that Lance Corporal Martins Idakpini, the detained soldier arrested for criticising Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, may have been killed by the army as punishment for his action, it has been gathered. SaharaReporters had earlier reported how the army twice denied Idakpini’s lawyer and family from seeing him in…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has said two persons died while three were injured when a 20-feet container fell on a commercial bus at Ilasamaja on the Oshodi-Badagry Expressway. LASEMA Director-General, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the accident on Sunday in Lagos, said the dead bodies and injured persons had been…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The former President of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua is dead. He allegedly died in Abuja on Monday night of cardiac arrest. He was 78 years old. Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua was a very strong ally of President mohammdau Buhari. He was believed to be a…