LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Nuhu Clark, a member-elect for Chibok constituency in the Borno House of Assembly, is dead. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deceased died in India on Monday, while undergoing treatment. Babakura Abbajatau, The state Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, confirmed the development in an interview with…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Murtala Muhammed Airport Command (MMAC) in Lagos State has intercepted hard drugs, military and police hardwares. The consignment were discovered at the cargo section, Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCO), of the domestic wing. Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Sambo Dangaladima announced the interception at a media briefing on…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Gambia’s Vice-President Badara Alieu Joof has died of illness in India, President Adama Barrow said on Tuesday. Joof, 65, was appointed vice president of the West African country in 2022. He had previously served as education minister. Barrow said on Twitter that Joof had died “after a short illness” without…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Pune City police, India, has given details on the arrest of Nigerian ‘engineer-turned-drug kingpin’, Folarin Abdulazees Andoyi, for being in possession of cocaine worth Rs 2.16 crore in 2022. The police said 50-year-old Andoyi, a mechanical engineer, had been active in the cocaine racket for over a decade and had been…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has been listed among African countries whose citizens can now apply for qualified teacher status through the Teaching Regulation Agency in the United Kingdom, from February 2023. Other countries to benefit include Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa, Ukraine and Zimbabwe. A publication early December on the UK Government’s…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian court has charged 26 men with conspiracy to commit a maritime offence and attempting to illegally deal in crude oil after authorities accused their supertanker of sailing in Nigerian waters without authority. The captain is an Indian national while the crew members are from Poland, India, Sri-Lanka and Pakistan, court…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An 8-year-old boy in India turned the tables on a deadly cobra after getting bitten by it. He bit back and killed the poisonous snake. In what The New Indian Express aptly called “a bizarre incident,” the boy named Deepak was playing in the backyard of his house on Monday when he…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 141 people died when a pedestrian suspension bridge collapsed in India’s western state of Gujarat. A local official said most of those who had died were women, children or elderly. The bridge in Morbi had been reopened just a week ago after repairs. There was overcrowding on the bridge at…