LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many residential buildings, school, churches were destroyed by an explosion in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Saturday morning The explosion, which occurred in the early hours of Saturday, cut off the ever-busy Akure /Owo road while many people were said to be injured. The explosion which happened less than a kilometre…
Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has described the recent burning of the hostel of Patterson Grammar school, Awada, Onitsha, owned and managed by the Anglican Diocese on the Niger as a national calamity which should be treated as such. Obi said this during his visit to the school…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said that the seeds for greatness are mainly sowed early in school. Obi was speaking at the weekend during his visit to the students of El Shalom Secondary School, Ogbaru, Anambra State, owned by the Anglican Diocese of Ogbaru. Obi…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Parents in Zimbabwe who cannot afford school fees can offer livestock such as goats or sheep as payment, a government minister has said. The country’s education minister Lazarus Dokora told the pro-government Sunday Mail newspaper that schools will have to show flexibility when it comes to demanding tuition fees from parents, and…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Three-year-old survival of the recent building collapse at Ita Faji on Lagos Island, Kabiru Sasore, Monday said he is afraid of going to school again. He said he was eating in his class when he suddenly heard a loud sound, thinking it was a bomb. “I was eating in my class…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A stray dog on Wednesday killed a child after it attacked a Nursery School in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The state police command confirmed this to Channels Television. According to the police, the dog, a dobermann reportedly passed through a gate left open by a security man of a building and scaled…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANAGERS)-Operatives of the Department of State Services on Tuesday swooped on a popular secondary school in Ado-Ekiti, Ola Oluwa Muslim Grammar School, and arrested some members of staff. Those arrested are the Secretary to the Principal, one Mrs. Olagbemi, and an Office Assistant, one Mrs. Ogunrinde. They were arrested for allegedly collecting…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSANGERS)-Over N3 billion has been spent by Bayelsa State as counterpart fund in the Education sector in the last six years, according to the State Commissioner for Education, Jonathan Obuebite. The gesture, he stated, was aimed at attracting Federal Government’s support and presence for the state. Obuebite stated this on Thursday in…
