LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The observance of Eid-el-Kabir on Wednesday turned into a carnival and a unification event for residents on Lagos Island. The Muslim community’s yearly ritual of ram slaughtering was marked with much fanfare among Islanders amid music entertainment, cooking, eating, and the popping of champagne. The event, which began with prayers in mosques…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Muslim faithful prepare for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration, price of rams and basic food commodities in various markets across Nigeria has led to widespread lamentation among Nigerians, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Different market surveys conducted by NAN correspondents in various states of the federation on Sunday, showed that the situation…
LAGOS February 3rd (newsrangers)-The police operatives in Ogun have arrested a man for allegedly setting his wife ablaze in the Ibogun area of the state. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, identified the suspect as Hassan Azeez. Azeez’s arrest followed a complaint lodged at…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Photos of an alleged restaurant in Lagos state where the sellers and apprentices are ghosts have been shared online. Reports claimed that it was an infamous Amala store located in Alaja area, Ayobo, Lagos state. An Eye witness who pleaded anonymity claimed that the food seller and all her apprentices are ghosts…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has pointed out that the high level of insecurity and the apparent neglect of the agricultural sector, among other factors, are responsible for the prevalent soaring food inflation experienced in the country. Obi, who made it known in a Message to mark…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The rise in food and airline ticket prices in Nigeria over the past year continues to show up in the data. In July, Nigerians paid 19.64% more for goods and services than they did in the same month last year, according to the latest inflation report (pdf) from the National Bureau of…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the Boko Haram and other hardened criminals who escaped from the Kuje Correctional Centers (Prison) after bomb attacks last night, July 5 are now roaming about, especially in Chibiri, a suburb of Kuje town, Abuja, on the way to Gwagwalada. Our correspondent who went round Kuje today, July 6, said…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some families in Kenya are eating just once a day, or not at all, because of rising food prices, writes the BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga in Nairobi. Early in the morning, I find Florence Kambua hunched over, digging through the dump site outside her front door to collect plastic, glass, clothes – anything…