LAGOS JULY 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)The Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State has accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of secretly conceding land to the federal government for a pilot scheme of the RUGA Settlement. It said Governor Obaseki’s silence on the issue at a time other state governments are rejecting the establishment of RUGA settlement in their respective states…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States of America has sought the views of the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on the security situation in the country. A two-man team of officials from the US Embassy in Lagos, led by the Political Officer, Shashank Iyer, met with Adams on Monday in his Lagos home…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSANGERS)-Residents of Ipodo community in Ikeja area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria woke up to receive unusual visitors in the neighborhood on Saturday. A battalion of military personnel from the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army swarmed the neighbourhood in the early hours for environmental sanitation, cleaning streets of filth. Led by…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Imo State chapter, has threatened to drag President Muhammadu Buhari to the United Nations should he continue with his Ruga policy for herdsmen in the country. A report on Monday morning on Vanguard quoted Imo State Secretary of CAN, Reverend Eches Divine Eches, as alleging in…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the President of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick and four other officials of the football body. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu issued the order of arrest following the refusal of Pinnick and others to appear in court…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWRANGERS)-Suspected gunmen on Monday invaded a police station in Agudama community in Yenagoa Local Government of Bayelsa State, firing and killing four police personnel. The yet-to-identified officers that were killed included the Divisional Police Officer, a pregnant policewoman and two policemen who were on duty. The gunmen carted away rifles, ammunition and…