LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This year’s edition of the annual traditional ‘Oro’ festival, usually held in Ikorodu, Lagos State, has been scheduled for May 16, 2024, daytime and nighttime. This was disclosed in a letter issued by the Ayangburen Palace and signed by the Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Kabiru Shotobi; a copy of which was sighted…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Folasade Ogunsola, a Professor of Microbiology, has emerged as the 13th Vice Chancellor of University of Lagos (UNILAG). The scholar makes history, as she becomes the first female VC of the institution established in 1962. Ogunsola will succeed the outgoing and 12th VC, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, whose five-year single term ends on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, were on Sunday evening, found dead at a private hostel in the school. A source at the institution said the hostel room located at William’s Lodge was forced open following a stench oozing out from it. According to the source, the two students, a…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Egyptian police on Tuesday arrested a Tiktok star who has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for her posts on social media. Haneen Hossam, a 20-year-old Cairo University student who became an influencer on video sharing app Tiktok, was sentenced in absentia on Sunday alongside four others. While all five were fined…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A police officer attached to a bank in Oye-Ekiti has been shot dead in a robbery attack on Thursday. A girl, believed to be about five years old, was also killed by the gunmen while on her way back from school, Premium Times reports. The gunmen made away with money from the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security has been tightened around the Jaji Military Cantonment, in Kaduna State, as the military authorities commenced interrogation of the suspected killers of Commander Olowayemisi Ogundana. Ogundana was the Commandant of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Secondary School until she was gruesomely murdered and her dismembered body dumped in…
LAGS OCTOER 25TH (NEWRANGERS)The 2018 average life expectancy for Nigerians is now 55 years, a global data shows. According to the latest World Health Organisation data published for 2018 life expectancy in Nigeria, a male given birth to in Nigeria in 2018 is expected to live approximately 54.7 years, while a female is expected to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected gunmen have kidnapped seven passengers travelling with a vehicle belonging to God is Good Transport Company. DAILY POST gathered that the passengers, mostly women were on their way from Enugu to Lagos when they were intercepted around Ore, Ondo State, and whisked away to an unknown destination. Sources hinted this reporter…