LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Property worth millions of Naira have been destroyed in an inferno that razed the House of Osun State Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode, on Sunday. The house is situated in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The Osun State Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Yemisi Opalola confirmed the incident on Monday. In…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Argentina raided the home and offices of Leopoldo Luque, Diego Maradona’s personal doctor, on Sunday as part of an investigation into the soccer legend’s death. Maradona, 60, died of a heart attack at his Buenos Aires-area home on Nov. 25, just weeks after undergoing surgery to relieve bleeding on his…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed security operatives have surrounded the home of former managing director of the NDDC, Joy Nunieh, in Port Harcourt. Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike is reportedly moving to intervene in the stand-off. It was gathered that the former NDDC boss is due to appear before a House of Representatives Committee in…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China’s Ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead inside his official residence on Sundaymorning, a spokeswoman for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNN. At this stage, the 57-year-old’s death is not being treated as suspicious. Police are outside the ambassador’s residence in Herzliya — to the north of Tel Aviv…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has vowed to mobilise its members nationwide in a “mother of all protest” if the Federal Government goes ahead with the plan to commence school feeding programme at a time when the schools are shutdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. National President…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered all civil servants in the state to stay away from work on Monday, May 4. The governor in a statement on Sunday evening asked all its civil servants not to resume work immediately, noting that the delayed resumption is a deliberate attempt to prevent…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigerian president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has reacted to the attack on his residence in Bayelsa by unknown gunmen early on Tuesday, December 24 morning. Jonathan who was not in Otuoke at the time of the attack however returned to his village early this morning to assess the situation himself. According to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Neighbours have discovered the decomposing body of a tenant, Ijeoma Eminista, in her one-room apartment at No. 21 Onitolo Street, Surulere, Lagos. The search for the young woman began after neighbours noticed her disappearance for two days. The attention of the landlord, Gbolahan Adesanya, was called when they noticed her window…