LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-As many as 20,000 women and girls are feared to have been trafficked from Nigeria to Mali where they are stranded after being forced into prostitution, the head of Nigeria’s anti-trafficking agency said on Tuesday. Julie Okah-Donli, director general of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), said […]
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the February 16 presidential election, former President Olusegun Obasanjo will in the coming days embark on foreign trips where he will market Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the international community on why he thinks he will make a good president of Nigeria if […]
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Detectives may have found more “suspicious” funds in Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Walter Onnoghen’s accounts, The Nation has learnt. There are also “suspicious” transactions, including an $800,000 Standard Chartered Bank investment subscription, sources said. Also found is $630,000 lodged in some of the accounts through what is described as “structured payments” […]
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of planning to rig the forthcoming general elections. The former vice president, who spoke at the PDP Southeast rally in Owerri, the Imo State capital, urged the people to protect their votes by staying back at […]
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Sporadic gunshots sent people scampering for safety, even as four persons were wounded and property worth hundreds of thousands of naira were destroyed at the end of the Abia State Governorship Debate in Umuahia on Tuesday. The debate held at Abia Hotels was organised by Online Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria (OMPAN), […]
LAGOS JANAURY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 35-year-old man, one Simon Ugbala, suspected to be running mad, has allegedly killed his two sons, wife and seven others, and fled to an unknown destination in Ebonyi state. The suspect, who was residing at Onyikwa in Nkaliki community in Ebonyi local government area of Ebonyi state, was said to have […]
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The chairman, Coalition of All Atiku Support Groups, Lagos State, Mark Iheanyi has decried alleged lack of campaign materials for about 800 pro-Atiku groups in the state, saying that the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, risks losing over four million voters from the state if nothing is done to […]
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Olusegun Obasanjo who reacted to a statement about him being ‘sick’ by Buhari, slammed the Nigerian President again who according to him is sick in the spirit, body and soul. Obasanjo who stated that Buhari needs to rest and allow another person to take charge of the country in an interview with BBC […]
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have refused to release Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, despite meeting his bail conditions, TheCable understands. On Friday, a high court in Abuja granted Melaye bail on health grounds after about two weeks in detention. Yusuf Halilu, the judge, had granted the senator bail on health grounds. The bails […]
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An irate mob in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Monday, lynched one Babatunde Ajonileju, whom they accused of harvesting human faeces for sinister motives. An eyewitness, who preferred anonymity, said at the Igirigiri area of the state capital, where the man was lynched, that the mob had captured him in the Matthew […]
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