No fewer than 12 young entrepreneurs from host communities to the Bonny Oil and Gas Terminal in Rivers State have benefitted from a N150 million capacity development and empowerment programme by The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC). SPDC’s General Manager, External Relations, Igo Weli, who handed over the service entry and final…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector – General of Police Intelligence Response Team ( IRT) has arrested most wanted kidnap kingpin School boy . Also arrested in company with him were six other members of his gang . They have been on the police wanted list ,but they were arrested after killing a Nigerian serving with…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A herbalist, Femi Emmanuel, is now with the police in Kwara State for allegedly causing the death of a 45-year-old woman and a mother of two, Mrs Tawakalitu Mukaila, in his house. It was gathered that the death occurred in Emmanuel’s house at Ila-Odo-owa, Oke-Ero LGA, after Tawakalitu, a trader and resident…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As R. Kelly continues dodging responsibility for the years of sexual abuse allegations against him, he’s also swerving around his financial obligations. His lawyer admitted at a hearing that Kelly’s finances were “a mess,” so much so that the disgraced R&B singer needed a friend to bail him out of jail. Now,…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Aisha Musa Maina digs through an old bag looking for memories of her daughter Hauwa, one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped five years ago by Boko Haram jihadists in northeastern Nigeria. All she has left are old papers damaged by dust and humidity, a school diploma and a small photograph….
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump will have to release five years of tax returns if he wants appear on the Illinois 2020 presidential ballot, the state’s senate has ruled. The bill, which still requires approval by the Prairie State’s House of Representatives, comes amid a growing row in Washington over Mr Trump’s unprecedented refusal to…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reports already predicted Ghana as the fastest-growing economy in the world this year, according to the IMF. The lender’s growth forecast of 8.8 per cent for the producer of cocoa, gold and oil dwarfs the 6.6 per cent median in a media survey. The West African country is expected to become the…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ousted president of Sudan Omar al-Bashir has been detained by the soldiers who toppled him, but protestors against his iron-fisted rule swiftly rejected the “coup” and vowed to keep up their demonstrations. In a sombre televised address, Defence Minister General Awad Mohamed Ahmed Bin Aouf, announced “the toppling of the regime” and…