LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Agency for Food And Drug Administration And Control, on Thursday, paraded some suspected drug and food fraudsters. Director General, NAFDAC, Prof. Christianah Adeyeye, in a statement made available to The PUNCH on Friday, said one Mr Okeke Francis of No. 28 Otigba Crescent, G.R.A. Onitsha, Anambra State, was arrested with…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Anambra State Police Command has confirmed the fire outbreak that occured at Kano Street part of Onitsha Main Market, Onitsha, the commercial city of the state, on Monday morning. The State PPRO, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed the incident in a statement in Awka, disclosed that goods and properties worth…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Stanley Anigbogu, a 22-year-old student from Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, currently studying studying Multimedia Development on full scholarship at The National School of Applied Sciences, Kenitra, Morocco, has been included in the top 50 shortlist for the Chegg.org Global Student Prize 2022, an annual $100,000 award to be given to one exceptional student that has…
LAGOS JUNE 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-There is pandemonium as gunmen invaded schools in Onitsha and some parts of the Idemili area of Anambra State, chasing students out of the classrooms. The gunmen were said to also invade markets and public places to chase people away. It was gathered that the gunmen claimed that people should go home…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A political pressure group, Like Minds for Peter Obi, delivered presidential nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the aspirant in Onitsha, Anambra, on Friday. The group bought the form for N40 million at the party’s Abuja secretariat on Thursday and delivered same to Obi at his Niger Drive…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Details have emerged of how Dr. Chike Akunyili, the husband of the late director general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, and later Minister of Information, Professor Dora Akunyili and eight others were slaughtered on Tuesday night at Nkpor, a suburb of the commercial city of…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Commercial activities were grounded for hours in parts of Anambra on Monday as the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra went underway in Abuja. Mostly affected were the commercial centres of Onitsha and Nnewi where major markets were shut. African Examiner reports that vehicular movements within…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has appealed to leaders at all levels of government to avoid actions capable of inflicting more hardship on millions of Nigerians, especially in this period that life is manifestly very tough for Nigerians. Obi was…