LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely seven days after Lagos State Government commenced the implementation of the ban on commercial motorcycle operations in six local governments, strong indications have emerged that Okada riders are gradually returning to Apapa port access roads. Some residents of the Apapa port city who spoke with Daily Sun, have decried the gradual…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits again on Sunday struck in Kaduna State, killing one person and abducting four others when they attacked Haske Baptist Church in Mannai Tasha village in Kuriga ward of the Chikun Local Government Area of the state. An eyewitness, Yakubu Bala, told one of our correspondents that the bandits invaded the church…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Africa’s mobile users are increasingly concerned about the mobile risks and the potential for digital identity theft; however, this is not stopping them from using their favourite messaging platforms and applications. This emerged in new research carried out by KnowBe4 among over 700 smartphone users in Nigeria, Mauritius, Egypt, South Africa,…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Some onion farmers and marketers in Kano State are lamenting over the effect of the blockade of food items to the southern part of the country. To protest the recent attacks on traders in some South West States, the The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) had embarked…
By Amos Akioma LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Patients suspected to be infected by Coronavirus in Bayelsa have bemoaned the delays in getting results from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) laboratories in Benin and Port Harcourt. Investigations indicate that worst affected are medical personnel with contact with confirmed cases who went into self isolation for…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was no longer business as usual around the Apapa ports, in Lagos, as clearing agents, dockworkers and other businessmen found it difficult to access the seaports due to the recent ban placed on commercial motorcycles popularly known as Okada along the axis. Dockworkers, who spoke to The Guardian yesterday, condemned the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Abia State governor, Orji Kalu who was recently sentenced to twelve years imprisonment over charges bordering on corruption was reported to have been moved from Lagos to the Kuje Prison in Abuja for reasons no one could fathom. The Nation reported that although Kalu has become a prison inmate since he…