LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi has washed his hands off a fraudulent empowerment scheme advertised in the social media by scammers using a fake Peter Obi account. The fake Peter Obi Facebook account announced a non-existent “EMPOWERMENT SCHEME”, saying: “Nigeria’s federal…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos based teacher who was kidnapped in Benin on Friday, May 24, narrated his experience in the den of the kidnappers where he spent five days before he was released after paying a ransom. According to him, the kidnappers have laptops and a tracking device which they use to monitor intruders….
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Army, 32 Artillery Brigade, Owena Barracks, Akure, says it is battle-ready to rid Ondo State and neighbouring states of kidnappers and bandits. Brig. Gen. Zakari Logun Abubakar, Commander of the 32 Artillery Brigade, disclosed this to SaharaReporters in an interview on Friday. Abubakar lamented the rampant cases of kidnapping which…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced a 100 percent increase in the allowances of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority officials. Sanwo-Olu announced the increase when he visited the LASTMA headquarters at Oshodi, Lagos. Sanwo-Olu promised that the increase would commence from the end of July 2019 while also saying that…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Indiana teen who fatally stabbed her mother has been sentenced to 45 years in prison. On Wednesday, 17-year-old Chastinea Reeves was sentenced by a Lake Superior Court judge as part of a plea deal, the Chicago Tribune, WGNTV and NWI Times report. During the hearing, the teen told the judge she…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court of Nigeria has sacked Senator David Umaru as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Niger-East Senatorial District of Niger State, northern Nigeria. A five-man panel of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, took the decision on Friday. The apex court ordered the recognition of…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Forum for Good Governance and Leadership has described ”the diatribes” by a former governor of Ekiti, Mr Ayo Fayose, against former President Olusegun Obasanjo over recognition of June 12 as condemn able. President of the forum, Prof. Tejumade Akitoye-Rhodes, gave the reaction in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Recall that…
By Fola Ojo “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned” The above is an excerpt from one of many brilliant works of poetry by the late American writer and poet, Maya Angelou. In the expository tome, “ALL GOD’S CHILDREN…