LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A delegation of the Steering Committee of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative (VPI) led by the current Chair, Mr. Ronald Roosdorp of the Netherlands Government will arrive in Nigeria on Sunday, February 11, 2018 for a five-day working visit. Other members of the delegation would be representatives from…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Youths from the six geo-political zones on Friday described the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun as one of the most competent and honest politicians in the world. “Oyegun is an impeccably honest man, certainly a rare variety among politicians today. Even the opposition can swear to…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa Police Command has confirmed the killing of Mr Okaye Igali, the Southern Ijaw branch Chairman of Nigerian Union of Local Government Employee (NULGE) by unidentified assassins. DSP Asinim Butswat, the Spokesman of the state Police Command, confirmed the murder to newsmen Saturday in Yenagoa. “Igali `m`age 53,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-BokO Haram terrorist group has released three abducted University of Maiduguri lecturers in Magumeri, Borno State. Also released from the Boko Haram terrorists were 10 women kidnapped in a raid by the militant group on a military/police convoy on Damboa Road, near Maiduguri. Their release followed series of negotiations as directed by…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The media aide to former military President Ibrahim Babangida, Kassim Afegbua, says his life is now in danger, following the receipt of series of unknown phone calls from people threatening him and his family. Afegbua had been visiting offices of the Nigerian Police and the Directorate of State Department (DSS) since he…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Detectives from the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have busted a six-man goods diversion syndicate alleged to have successfully diverted a consignment from Lagos ports and disposing them at giveaway prices in Imo state. .They were nabbed after the owner of a truck carrying a 40ft container containing 608 pieces of imported…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian airline says it’s a passenger’s fault that he fell out of a plane shortly after it landed. The unidentified man fell out of the Dana Air plane’s emergency door as it taxied shortly after landing in Abuja. The airline claims the exit couldn’t have popped open “without a conscious effort…
Airli LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alarmed passengers say they were terrified when one of the emergency exit doors fell off a plane as it landed in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Passengers took to social media to document their experiences aboard the Dana Airlines aircraft Wednesday. Ola Orekunrin, a doctor from Lagos, tweeted that the “exit door fell…