LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-An American pastor has been kidnapped by armed men after they stormed his church service in South Africa, local authorities say. Josh Sullivan had been conducting a service at Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell, a township in Gqeberra in the Eastern Cape, on Thursday evening when “four armed and masked male suspects…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has raised concerns again at the nation’s rising debt profile saying that N97.3 trillion is on the high side and worrisome. According to the former Anambra State Governor, even more disturbing is the fact that most of these…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of expensive seized vehicles estimated at over N60 billion are presently rotting away at various warehouses of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) across the country. The vehicles, which were seized from smugglers, are wasting as the electronic auction (e-auction) platform of Customs has become moribund and useable to the general public….
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted an application seeking leave to serve the court papers on the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, over money laundering allegations. The court on Thursday granted the application directing the service of the papers through the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than six people were injured, five of them critically, when The Deeper Life Bible Church, located at Iragbo community in Badagry, Lagos state collapsed on Sunday. The building collapsed at about 9.30 a.m while the service was in progress, amid a heavy rainstorm. One of the members of the Church…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has repealed the Customs and Excise Management Act and re-enacted new legislation in its place. The bill seeks to make it mandatory for the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) to be appointed within the ranks of the officers of the agency. This will end the…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prostitutes in Dema Growth Point, Zimbabwe are reportedly now accepting buckets of maize and cups of beans as payment from their cash-strapped male clients. Some of the sex workers who spoke to New Zimbabwe, appealed to the government and other organisations for low-interest loans to start income-generating projects to fend for their starving families. One…