LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria on Friday confirmed the outbreak of a new infection of the nose and throat, otherwise known as Diphtheria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) in a public health advisory issued Friday morning, confirmed that not less than 25 people have reportedly died from the disease in Kano State,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21 (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic police force in northern Nigeria’s main city has arrested 19 Muslims, accusing them of attending the wedding of a same-sex couple. The force raided the marriage ceremony in Kano after a tip-off, its spokesman Lawal Ibrahim Fagge said. The couple, who had not yet taken their vows, managed to flee…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP), in Kano State, on Saturday held a town hall meeting to fine tune strategies towards achieving landslide electoral victory in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The Chairman of the party, Alhaji Muhammad Raji, while addressing party members and support groups, said the meeting was organized by House of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two persons in possession of 468 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) have been arrested by the police. This was made known in a statement signed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, on Sunday. According to the statement, the offenders; Nasiru Idris,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 23 persons were reported to have slumped among the crowd that generated gridlock during the Permanent Voter Cards’ walk show organised in Kano State by the North-West Tinubu/Shettima campaign support group on Sunday. The one-million-man march, which took place in Kano on Sunday, started from the Emir’s palace in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Politicians are getting closer to the prospective voters across the country as the 2023 general election approaches. Most of the cities in northern Nigeria are flooded with posters, banners and billboards. In Kano, Labour Party gubernatorial candidate in the state is campaigning in a unique way that is believed by many as…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has ordered police to arrest and investigate 10 local celebrities for “immoral conduct” on social media that could influence youth, a judicial official told AFP Thursday. The court issued the order on Tuesday last week after lawyers filed a lawsuit, calling for their prosecution for singing…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the vigilante group attached to the Zuba Motor Park, Abuja, on Wednesday arrested a man with eight guns billed for delivery to Kano. Commander of the group in the area, Yahaya Madaki, who confirmed that yesterday, said the suspect arrived at a roadside park near a filling station formerly known…
