LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has approved an uplift grant under the National Construction and Household Support Programme for 3.6m Nigerian families. This initiative will deliver N50,000 to 100,000 families in each state for three months. The disbursement of the Tinubu uplift grant to families will occur over a three-month period, according to presidential…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)- FIFA President Gianni Infantino has offered his condolences to the families and friends of those who died in El Salvador stadium stampede just as he described the incident as “tragic.” Twelve people were killed and hundreds injured Saturday in a stampede at an El Salvador soccer stadium, police and emergency services…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Mexican drug cartel accused in the gruesome killings of nine women and children from an offshoot Mormon community must pay $1.5 billion to the families, a federal judge from North Dakota ruled. The family members of the victims filed a lawsuit accusing the Juarez cartel of carrying out the November 2019 attack in Mexico as…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An expectant mother and her husband, a couple and two sisters are among those being held by terrorists who attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train, it was learnt yesterday. Aliyu Mahmud, a relative of the seven-month pregnant woman, was among the victims’ families who staged a peaceful protest at the Radio House in Abuja…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian nutritionist Emiolo Ogunsola stands in front of a dozen new mothers in a Lagos public hospital, listing the basic foods they need to keep their children well nourished: Eggs, vegetables and beans among them. Her pitch is abruptly interrupted. For the mothers listening, even those essentials are increasingly beyond their reach….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has described as painfully sad and heartbreaking, the tanker explosions that claimed precious lives of people at Lokoja – Abuja Road, Kogi State, and the Ifako-Ijaiye area of Lagos. In a press release from his Media Office…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many policemen resident in Traffic Training School Barracks, Ikeja, Lagos, say they are on the verge of being homeless following an order, directing them to vacate the barracks on Tuesday, March 31. A notice to quit memo dated February 24, 2020 issued to the occupants by the Force Provost Marshal and signed…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor, Major-General Bamidele Shafa, yesterday said that another batch of 606 ex-Boko Haram fighters are set to be reunited with their families after undergoing rehabilitation under the Federal Government’s Operation Safe Corridor program. Shafa made this known at the opening of a stakeholders’ meeting to work out…