LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has removed the Officer-in-Charge of the Ibara Medium Custodial Centre in Abeokuta, Ogun State, and two other principal officers after a death row inmate used a smuggled mobile phone to stream live on TikTok from inside the facility. The action, announced on Thursday, followed public outrage over…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has revealed how the Federal Government quietly removed the subsidy on electricity tariff. She said the government had to carefully adjust the prices incrementally at some levels. Speaking on Thursday at a virtual meeting of African Finance Ministers and the International Monetary Fund, Ahmed also…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspect, simply known as Osas, is on the run after allegedly killing his girlfriend, Elohor Oniorosa, on Christmas eve in what is suspected to be a ritual killing in Benin, Edo State. According to the Police spokesperson, SP Bello Kontongs, the father of the deceased, William Oniorosa, reported the case to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Washington on Wednesday removed Nigeria from its list of countries with religious freedom concerns, just a day before Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in the country as part of a tour of Africa. The omission drew a sharp rebuke from a U.S. government commission that had recommended the Biden administration keep…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Enugu Police Command said yesterday it would put in required efforts to unravel circumstances behind the missing and killing of a soya milk seller in Mkpologwu, Enugu East Local Government Area of the state. Confusion had enveloped the New Haven Extension in Mkpologwu on Wednesday as the missing woman was found…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-There are strong indications that the Lagos State governor, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, might not make it as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the 2023 Lagos Governorship Poll as plot to drop the hardworking governor from the race gathers momentum. Plot Against Sanwo-Olu’s Second Term It is two full years to…
