LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Over 100 cattle reportedly belonging to suspected armed Fulani herdsmen have died while attempting to cross the River Benue into Nasarawa State. The incident occurred on Saturday, with eyewitnesses saying many of the animals drowned or were buried by collapsing sandbanks along the river due to erosion. Olikita Ekani, a farmer who…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three residents of Takum town in Taraba State have lost their lives following a severe windstorm that struck the area twice in two days. The first incident, according to a resident, Mallam Maiwada Takum, occurred on Tuesday evening, causing extensive damage to residential, commercial, school and office buildings. Takum said the weather…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid speculations of assassination, the Inspector General of Police, (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has taken over the investigation into the circumstances that led to the murder of a staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Daniel Adefemi Okunade. Okunade, a top ranking officer in the Internal Audit Department of CBN, was shot…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A runaway case of coronavirus patient has arrived Kano State to give Kano State its first official case of coronavirus. A source who spoke to 247ureports.com from Kano State government house confirmed that a former Ambassador has tested positive for the coronavirus in Kano. The former Ambassador had recently traveled to Lagos…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has broken his silence on his removal from office. This is coming after the former ruler was dethroned on Monday, March 9, following allegations of consistently refusing to abide by the state government’s instructions. The former monarch in a video that lasted over four…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was meant to be a gathering to pray for a politician’s mother, but yesterday’s session in Ilorin was more than that. Politicians latched onto the prayer to smoothen defection talks between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Reformed-All Progressives Congress(R-APC)—the conclave of aggrived APC members. The secret session was between…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Fuel queues resurfaced weekend in major cities of Lagos, Abuja, Nasarawa and other parts of the country despite repeated assurances by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to wet the country with enough petroleum product this new year. Already, most service stations owned my Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) monitored b were…