LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian tourism minister has been hospitalised in Abuja after suffering acute poisoning from unknown origins, Peoples Gazette was told, as her family members fear time was running against their efforts to save her life. Lola Ade-John, 60, was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, shortly after she started manifesting symptoms of…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis attended a Palm Sunday service in St Peter’s Square, a day after he was discharged from the hospital following successful treatment for a severe bout of bronchitis. He was driven into the huge esplanade, sitting in the back of an open-topped vehicle as it passed through the crowds, before descending and…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis was discharged on Saturday from the Rome hospital where he was treated for bronchitis, quipping to journalists before being driven away: “I’m still alive.” Francis, 86, was hospitalized on Wednesday at Gemelli Polyclinic after reportedly having breathing difficulties following his weekly public audience. The pontiff was treated with antibiotics administered…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Don’t joke with fainting in a Muslim home, you might be six feet under before you know it. Something close to this popular saying was at play today as arrangements were reportedly in top gear to bury a former deputy speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adetoun Adediran, whose death…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Lagos State, Kunle Ajibade, has been murdered by suspected hoodlums in Ijeshatedo, in the Surulere area of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that the assailants stabbed the 28-year-old at his house and trailed him to a hospital where he was receiving…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has stated that no political leader in Nigeria deserves any award of excellence, considering the general failure of the nation in all fronts due to the mismanagement of national resources, selfishness, greed and wickedness of…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Christian Eriksen surprised the Denmark team with a visit in the middle of a training session Friday and then gave everyone all a hug, his teammates said on Saturday. Eriksen was discharged from a Copenhagen hospital on Friday and immediately went to see his teammates at their European Championship base camp outside…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Oko-Afo Outpost of Lagos State Sector Command on Thursday rendered an assistance to a woman in labour while on transit in the state. The Sector Commander Coprs Commander Olusegun Ogungbemide in a statement by the FRSC Public Education Officer in Lagos, Route Commander…