LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Government has dismissed a report that Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s wife, Prof. Hafsat Ganduje, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), describing it as mere rumours being peddled by mischief-makers. A statement by the Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, expressed regret that the content of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A light aircraft piloted by Romanian billionaire, Dan Petrescu, crashed into an empty office building near Milan on Sunday, killing him, his wife and their son, and all five others aboard, Italian media reported. The single-engine Pilatus PC-12 had taken off from Milan’s Linate airport shortly after 1:00 pm (1100 GMT) headed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Saturday night abducted the wife and two children of the Katsina State lawmaker representing Bakori Local Government Area at the State House of Assembly, Dr. Ibrahim Kurami. The bandits, it was gathered, stormed the residence of the lawmaker in Kurami village in Bakori Local Government Area…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rev. Jesse Jackson, and his wife, Jacqueline, remained under doctors’ observation Sunday at a Chicago hospital and were “responding positively to treatments” for COVID-19, their son told The Associated Press. The couple, married for nearly six decades, were admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital a day earlier. Physicians were “carefully monitoring their…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mrs Hadiza Shagari, wife of Nigeria’s Late former President Shehu Shagari, is dead. She was aged 80-year-old. Her family said she died at a COVID-19 Isolation Centre in Abuja on Thursday. She is expected to be buried today. “We regret to announce the demise of our beloved mother, Hajiya Hadiza Shehu Shagari,…
No fewer than 13 people, including seven wedding guests, a pastor and his wife were abducted in two kidnapping incidents that occurred between Kwara-Ekiti axis on Saturday evening. Police sources said that seven guests who were returning to Ilorin from a wedding in Ekiti State in a Sienna bus were accosted by kidnappers at a…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Motorists in Abuja have foiled an abduction attempt on a resident around the Magicland Park before the city gate. The victim was said to have disembarked from his car to urinate when he was attacked by suspected kidnappers. PUNCH Metro learnt that his wife, who was in the vehicle and saw what…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah, had been in detention since 2015 when he was arrested after a clash in which the army killed an estimated 350 people at an IMN compound and a nearby mosque and burial ground in northern Kaduna state. The couple had been facing a range of charges filed…