http://ift.tt/2nPDgb9 LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A famous Chinese ‘rooftopper’ fell to his death from a skyscraper in a daring £11,000 challenge as he sought to use his fame to help lift his family out of poverty, media reported. Wu Yongning, aged 26, fell from the summit of the 62-storey Huayuan Hua Centre in the central city…
http://ift.tt/2B7nz4b Police take down Akayed Ullah in New York in a photo widely shared on social media, Dec. 11, 2017. (Obtained by ABC News) LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man accused of detonating an explosive in the New York City subway system this morning had the bomb strapped to him while he rode in from Brooklyn…
http://ift.tt/2AsZjKL By Jerome- Mario Utomi LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a veiled agreement among stakeholders at a recent gathering in Lagos that the governments in Nigeria at all levels are shirking the traditional but universal responsibility of provision of economic and infrastructural succor to the citizenry which the instrumentality of participatory democracy and election of…
http://ift.tt/2BwdcIj IGP Idris LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A traditional ruler in Ise Town, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos State, Taibu Ogunbanjo, is currently cooling his heels in police custody for allegedly crushing his wife to death. The baale runs a block-moulding factory at Folu, a community in Ibeju Lekki. PUNCH Metro learnt that Taibu and his wife, Rotimi…
http://ift.tt/2jvaz1Q Lebanese protest in front of US Embassy i Beirut LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lebanese security forces clashed with protesters near the United States embassy in Beirut on Sunday over President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Hundreds of protesters and dozens of riot police gathered in front of the entrance leading to the…
http://ift.tt/2yefoOx Rochas Okorocha LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has described the defection of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from APC to PDP as a great loss to the ruling party. Okorocha spoke in Akungba Akoko after being conferred with the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by the Senate of Adekunle…
http://ift.tt/2iO4vNS Uche Secondus LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Uche Secondus is the man of the moment. The 62-year-old politician from Rivers State, South-south of Nigeria, won big on Saturday in Abuja. But his election as the new leader of Nigeria’s biggest opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seemed to have already put his party on a…
http://ift.tt/2kWZU04 Atiku LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has asked for unity amongst members of the Peoples Democratic Party following the conclusion of election of the party’s executive at its National Convention on Saturday. A press statement by the media office of the former Vice President congratulating Uche Secondus as…
