LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon security forces have freed 18 hostages, including 12 European tourists, who had been seized by separatists fighting for the independence of English-speaking regions, the government said Wednesday. Seven Swiss and five Italian hostages were freed Monday in Manyu in the southwest after heavy exchanges of gunfire, said spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary….
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The premises of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos was on Tuesday filled to the brim with jubilant crowd who thronged the airport to welcome the publisher of Saharareporters, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, as he arrived Nigeria to commence campaign for his 2019 presidential ambition. Although, Mr. Sowore has not officially declare his intention…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons are feared to have died in the early hours of Wednesday in Lagos when an electric pole fell on a moving commercial bus in the Ilasa area of the State. The development was confirmed by police authorities in the area. According to available information, emergency teams of the Lagos State…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The weekly Federal Executive Council meeting has been cancelled. In its place, a security meeting has been scheduled for midday by the Presidency. The FEC, usually chaired by the President or Vice President, has cabinet ministers and other senior government officials such as the Head of Service, National Security Adviser and the…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Another Senator, Bukar Mustapha, is dead. His death comes shortly after that of Senator Ali Wakili from Bauchi State. Mustapha is the representative of Katsina North Senatorial District, the area from where President Muhammadu Buhari hails. He came to the Senate from Daura Zone on the platform of the All Progressives Congress….
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mukhtar Gusengadzhiev, 53, also known as “Snake Man”, was convicted of abusing the six underage girls including a relative and the 9-year-old daughter of a former girlfriend. .The Russian circus actor must also undergo compulsory “treatment” for paedophilia, according to reports. .During a search of his flat, police found several videos featuring…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Junior Secondary School (JSS) 2, student, Atoo Aondoana, has been held by the Police in Benue State for his alleged involvement in armed robbery along Makurdi-Alaide highway of the state. Aondoana alongside his accomplice, an elderly cleaner who works with the Nigeria Airforce in Makurdi, Peter Aghande, who is being held…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Street sweepers in Benin yesterday staged a protest demanding the payment of their outstanding salaries running into six months. The protesters who matched to the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Benin, said they were employed by the government which had not paid in the past six months. One…