LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has dragged the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, and 14 other Nigerian officials to a United States of America District Court over alleged complicity in the extra-judicial killings of its members. IPOB alleged that the extra-judicial killings…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wealthy Nigerians who do not take advantage of the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) to regularize their tax status, would face serious consequences, the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has warned. According to her, the Federal Government has compiled data on property, bank accounts, shareholdings and other income sources…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Catholic Bishops of Nigeria Thursday in Abuja told President Muhammadu Buhari that the country appeared to be under siege which required proactive measure, as hunger, hopelessness and deprivation have been the order of the day. The Bishops under the umbrella of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, also told the President that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s president on Thursday denied that government proposals to share out land to end a wave of violence over grazing rights amounted to “colonization” of fertile areas by his own ethnic group. Clashes between semi-nomadic herders, mostly of the Fulani ethnic group, and settled farmers in central states have killed around 100…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Government on Thursday said it would showcase to the world some of the achievements of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson in the last six years. The laudable achievements,it said, had placed the state on higher pedestal of development. Consequently, the government has concluded plans to roll out the drums as…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Police has denied reports that suspected Fulani herdsmen were killing innocent Nigerians along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. A viral audio which circulated on social media had stated that Fulani herdsmen allegedly killed many people. However, in a statement by Police Zonal PRO, Dolapo Badmus, the command described the report as false…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Security Services (DSS) has invited Kassim Afegbua for a chat with its Director-General, Mr Lawal Musa Daura. The meeting will hold on Thursday, February 8. This invitation came few hours after Afegbua honoured police invitation at Force Headquarters. He was subsequently cleared of any wrong doing. Afegbua’s attorney,…
By Amos Okioma,Yenagoa LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A violent clash between two factions of youths of Okpoama community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa loyal to All Progressives Congress (APC) and All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA) has left one dead and many injured. It was gathered that the deceased Iruo Ayebatonyo (Jnr.) who met his…