Archive for: September, 2019

Madume: 10 Soldiers Risk Death Sentence Over Taraba Police Killings

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigerian Army authorities have arrested an officer and nine soldiers in connection with the killing of five officers of the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT), on August 6, in Taraba State Daily Sun, can authoritatively report. This is just as our correspondent gathered that the arrested officers risk death sentence […]

Explosions Rock Homes Of Bayelsa PDP Chieftains

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- There were reports of explosions at the residences of two members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. It was gathered that some suspected thugs working for one of the governorship aspirants outside the PDP Restoration Team threw dynamites into the houses of Oforji Oboku, a […]

Perjury: Supreme Court Begins Hearing On Suit Seeking Buhari’s Disqualification

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The Supreme Court will today (Monday) commence hearing in the suit seeking the disqualification of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential polls over an alleged act of perjury. The suit filed by a legal practitioner and two others, Thisday learnt is one of the appeals slated for Monday, September 2, […]

Five Die In Lagos ‘Oro’ Festival As Cult Groups Clash

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The annual Oro cultural festival held in Ikorodu area of Lagos has turned bloody as suspected members of Aiye and Eiye cult gang engaged themselves in a clash. Five members of the secret cult groups died during the fight while several others sustained bullet and machete wounds. The gangs were said […]

Shi’ites Dare IG On Members Arrest, Vows To Carry Out Ashura Procession

LAGOS SEPEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has said that the move by the police to arrest its leaders and members nationwide was targeted at curtailing their religious freedom and liberty. The group stated that the planned arrest was aimed at preventing its members from conducting their religious mourning obligations, noting the Federal […]

Sanwo-Olu 100 Days In Office: LASG, NGO Plan Free Surgery For 100 People

LAGOS SEPEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- As part of activities lined up to commemorate 100 days in office of the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the State Government through the Ministry of Health in collaboration with a non-governmental organization; Benjamin Olowojebutu Foundation, will be carrying out free surgical intervention for 100 people with lipomas, breast lumps, hernia […]

Crime Partners Beat Bitcoin Scam Orchestrator To Death For Stealing Nearly $68 Mln

LAGOS SEPEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- Indian police have discovered a large-scale BTC scam worth $67.6 mln, its facilitator beaten to death for cheating his partners Police in the Indian Uttarakhand state have found out about a big Bitcoin scam after its orchestrator, Abdul Shakoor, was killed by his former crime partners for cheating them. Massive Bitcoin […]

Two UNILAG Scholars Win N540m Grants From UK Research Fund

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- Two scholars from the University of Lagos have attracted a total of €12,00,000, pounds (N540,000,000 million) for research. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the grants were from the United Kingdom Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund. The scholars are Dr Sunday Adebisi, Director, African Research Universities Alliance […]

Pope Francis Escapes Death On Sunday

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The pontiff arrived late for his weekly address in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday explaining that he had been stuck in an elevator in the Vatican for 25 minutes and had to be freed by firefighters. “I have to beg your pardon,” the smiling pontiff said as he started the address […]

13 N’Delta Indigenes Win SPDC JV Scholarship To Stud In UK Varsities

Thirteen indigenes of Niger Delta States of Bayelsa, Delta, Imo and Rivers have won the 2019 Shell Petroleum Development Company Joint Venture scholarship for a one-year master’s degree in three top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom. The latest awards bring the total number of beneficiaries to 92 since the inception of the scheme in 2010. […]

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