LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and son have escaped an assassination attempt, according to his Special Adviser, Media, Mr Uche Anichukwu. Anichukwu said in a statement in Abuja that the incident occurred at about 4 a.m. on Tuesday. He said some armed men discreetly evaded the security…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Although former President Olusegun Obasanjo has distanced himself from the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari, Olujuwon, one of his sons, visited the president at Aso Rock on Thursday. Olujuwon, who had earlier declared support for the reelection of Buhari, held a meeting with the president at his official residence at the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A journalist, Akinwunmi Dickson, and his son Nelson, 12, have been killed after fire gutted a shopping complex on Awolowo Way, in the Ikeja area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the deceased were asleep in an office in the complex when the incident happened around 5am on Sunday. An eyewitness,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria parents, Titilayo and Kehinde Omosebi, have been arrested by the Reedsburg Police in Wisconsin, US, after their son, Ayanfe, starved to death during a religious fast. According to the Facebook page of Reedsburg Police, the father of the deceased, Kehinde walked into the police station to report that his son had…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Magistrate Banji Ayeomoni of Okitipupa Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State, together with his son Dara, another relation and his driver were reported dead in an inferno caused by a petrol tanker spillage in Ekpoma. An official of the court, who spoke on condition of anonymity said the incident happened on Friday night…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Osama Bin Laden’s brother has urged the former Al-Qaeda leader’s son Hamza not to follow in his infamous father’s foot steps. Hamza, 29, is widely seen as a possible successor to Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian ideologue who took over Al-Qaeda after US special forces killed Osama Bin Laden in a 2011 raid…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (r-APC), Engr. Buba Galadima has been involved in a motor accident along Hadeija-Kano Road, Galadima who was returning from Yobe state on Monday, where he went to condole with his brother who lost his daughter, was in the company of his son, Sadiq Galadimma, a…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has commiserated with popular singer, Daniel Oyebanjo, a.k.a Dbanj over the death of his son David Jnr. Dbanj confirmed the death, in a family pool, of David, fondly referred to as Daniel the 3rd on Sunday night on his Instagram page. Sharing a black picture, he wrote @iambangalee,…
