LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-In journalism, you are taught to get to your assignment venue early. That was what I tried to do. I went to Ikire, in Osun State, on Saturday September 26, to sleep over ahead of the CAC Pastors Conference and Annual Convention at CAC Alasepe, in a bid to get to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The plot by some kidnappers to get victims at all cost was recently revealed in the confessions of an arrested suspect, Idris Mohammed, who told of how he would charter a vehicle to go on a journey, only to lure the unsuspecting driver into a web already laid to kidnap, and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of four men over their failure to appear in court for trial for allegedly defrauding Opay Digital Services Ltd of over N150 million. Justice Salim Ibrahim gave the order after John Ijagbemi, counsel for the prosecution, made…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie, has said that he is currently struggling to walk and has been experiencing swelling in different parts of his body. Edochie made the disclosure while visiting ailing Ghanaian actor Emmanuel Armah in Accra, Ghana, on Thursday, in a video now circulating online. During the emotional visit,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, has called on Nigerians to use the country’s 66th Independence anniversary to reflect honestly on the nation’s development trajectory and confront the challenges undermining its progress. Obi, in his Independence Day address titled “Nigeria at 66: Looking Back, Looking Forward,”…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says investigations suggest the man who stabbed his fellow pilot and tried to take over a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv had undergone “Islamist radical indoctrination”. The Flydubai plane plunged more than 17,000ft (5,200m) two hours into its journey on Wednesday, before passengers and crew overpowered…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A mosque in London is under investigation by the charities watchdog after a preacher encouraged husbands to beat their wives. Yasin Munye, an Islamic scholar at Hackney Islamic Community Centre, urged men to “discipline” their wives if they disobeyed them, footage posted on the mosque’s YouTube channel showed. The National Secular Society…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, has condemned the reported arrest of members of the Obidient Movement in Akwa Ibom State. This was as he stated that Nigeria’s independence means little if citizens cannot freely express themselves within the law. Obi said this in a statement posted…
