LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a move which can be likened to a response to the declaration by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that President Muhammadu Buhari had performed below expectation, the Presidency has launched a weekly television and radio programme. The programme is designed to exhibit the policies and programmes of the Buhari administration. The Deputy…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday thanked former President Olusegun Obasanjo for the scathing criticism of his administration, saying he had no reason to believe that there was any ulterior motive. The President also said his administration would “not go into a state of funk for whatever reason.” He said he believed that…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Babachir Lawal, former Secretary to the Federal Government (SGF), on Wednesday was arrested and detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over fraud allegations relating to grass cutting contracts. Lawal is being detained in the Abuja headquarters of the EFCC where he will face investigators over his role in the…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than nine persons have been killed by gunmen following an attack in a suburb of Iware community along Fufore/Jada road in Adamawa State. Residents said the gunmen also abducted seven children during the attack which lasted for hours. A resident, who pleaded anonymity, said, “Some gunmen suspected to be kidnappers…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Indonesian Special Forces soldiers showed off their survival skills on Wednesday by eating snakes and drinking their blood in front of U.S. Defence Secretary James Mattis. Mattis was visiting the Indonesian armed forces headquarters in Jakarta on the last of his three-day visit to the country before departing for Vietnam. As part…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos Commissioner of Police, CP Edgal Imohimi on Wednesday said that over N200m worth of drugs were recovered at Akala area of Mushin through community partnership. The CP who disclosed this during a town hall meeting hosted by the Area J Police Command, Aka said that every community has its challenges…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRAGERS)-More than two million people from over 130 countries have taken part in the second-largest Muslim gathering in the world. The annual Biswa Ijtema (“world congregation”) event concluded on Sunday with a mass, collective prayer on the banks of the Turag River, about 35km from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. Over the three-day…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors, lawmakers and political leaders from both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), met on Tuesday to continue discussions on the formation of a new political party. ThisDay reports that the move to form another major party was in a bid to wrestle power from the APC…