LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-: The growing diabetes epidemic will be an important topic when the United Nations General Assembly meets to discuss non-communicable diseases on September 27. Ahead of the meeting, new research from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) reveals only 17% of people believe their government is doing enough to tackle diabetes. Diabetes caused…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Government has confirmed that nine people have been killed and five others injured following recent flood disaster in nine Local Government Areas of the state. The Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, Alhaji Ali Bashir, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Kano, on…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Ondo State say a suspected kidnapper who was arrested in a botched kidnap attempt in Owo is dead following complications from a high intake of tramadol. It would be recalled that the suspect had been unconscious since his arrest over the Aug. 5 incident at a chemist in Owo….
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected car vandal, Daniel Ekwerekwu, has died while allegedly escaping from where he had gone to steal in the Maryland area of Lagos State. The Anambra State indigene was said to have hit his head on a concrete floor while attempting to scale a fence. The police alleged that Ekwerekwu sneaked…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Nigerians languishing in Osama Prison in Libya have cried out to the Federal Government, prominent Nigerians and the United Nations (UN) to come to their rescue. The victims, mostly immigrants who made failed attempts to enter Europe across the Sahara Desert, said in a video recorded and smuggled out of…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Coordinator, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, Dr. Adebola Lawanson, yesterday disclosed in Abuja that 420 Nigerians die everyday due to tuberculosis. She said N14.4 billion is needed to control the spread of the disease, even as 154, 000 deaths are also recorded every year. The coordinator advocated stiffer tariff on…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-British-born academic Dr David Goodall has explained why he has chosen to end his own life at the age of 104. Dr. Goodall, who was born in Britain but lived for much of his life in Australia, travelled to Switzerland to visit a euthanasia clinic. Wearing a sweatshirt with the slogan ‘Ageing…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kano based multi-billionaire- businessman, industrialist, Islamic Scholar and philanthropist, Sheikh Isyaku Rabiu, 90, has died in Great Britain following an undisclosed ailment. Media reports quoting News Digest said the deceased scholar would be buried as soon as his remains arrive Kano. The Sheikh made his fortune largely from manufacturing, textile, automobile, insurance,…