http://ift.tt/2vhPnke Chukwuani Columbus LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) have apprehended a fifty-nine (59) year old fish farmer while trying to board an Ethiopian airline flight to Johannesburg, South Africa through Addis Ababa. Twenty-five kilogrammes of substances that tested positive for…
http://ift.tt/2tNGjyZ LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 18 persons died in an accident involving a tipper and a J5 bus on Gumel-Gugunju road in Gumel Local Government Area of Jigawa. The Sector Commander of the Federal Roads Safety Corps in the state, Angus Ibezim, disclosed this to newsmen in Dutse on Saturday. Mr. Ibezim said…
http://ift.tt/2vSp9BU LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected cultists yesterday beheaded four persons in Ibaa community in Emohua Council of Rivers State. The Guardian gathered that same rampaging gangsters, who invaded the community on a reprisal attack, killed additional four persons. A source in the community, who preferred anonymity, said the hoodlums escaped with the victims’ heads. According…
http://ift.tt/2u6SRB8 John Fashanu LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWRANGERS)-John Fashanu was left in a Nigerian jail pen with 200 others after being held over an alleged dodgy land deal, police have revealed. The former Wimbledon and England star spent two days locked up as officers investigated claims he acted as a fixer in a scam to sell…
http://ift.tt/2w8Mizg The Igbonla Model College Students freed from abduction, with Governor Akeredolu, right and Oluranti Adebule, Lagos dep. gov LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty kidnappers were killed, while eight policemen and four civilian volunteers sustained injuries in the rescue of the abducted Lagos School boys on Friday. Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni disclosed…
http://ift.tt/2u5ZROx LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten people were burnt beyond recognition while six others sustained serious injuries when a petrol tanker went up in flames in Felele area of Lokoja on Friday. The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Kogi State, Mr Segun Martins, said most of the victims were passengers travelling in…
http://ift.tt/2tQtnww LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola on Friday, tendered an apology to members of the House of Representatives when he appeared before an ad-hoc committee of the House. The apology follows allegations that his comments regarding alterations made to the 2017 Appropriation Bill by the National Assembly breached…
http://ift.tt/2tQl6bM Ahmed Makarfi LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)Chairman of the caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi has survived an auto crash on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway. This was made known in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Dayo Adeyeye, who said the incident occurred in the early…