By Samuel Akpobome Orovwuje LAGOS MARH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-We have never faced greater threat to the future of Water Rights in Nigeria than now. The federal and sub – national governments across Nigeria are doubling down to privatize water and drumming up support for the sales of water infrastructures to opaque private corporations in the name…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers Police Command in the early hours of Thursday rescued four kidnapped victims in the state. In a Joint Operation, Men of the IGP Monitoring Unit and Anti Kidnapping Unit led by the Commander, DCP Benneth Igweh, stormed a thick forest at Uzohia and Ubima both in Ikwerre L.G.A where four…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five members of a syndicate that defrauded a newly-wed couple of N900,000, posing as estate agents, have been arrested by operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, attached to the Lagos State Police Command. The suspects, identified as Matthew, 42; Elabor Aruoya, 61; Adesina Abegunde, 54; Segun Adewale, 42, and Olamide Ojajinu, 42,…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has advised the Nigerian Government against the planned to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT). Addressing a gathering at the Bola Tinubu Colloquium on Thursday in Abuja, he warned that such decision was capable of worsening the nation’s economy. “Consumers’ spending…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Sa’ad Moh’d of the Gombe State High Court has convicted a councillor in Bolari East Local Government Area, Gombe, Ishiyaku Garba, of vote-buying. Garba was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on three counts bordering on bribery. Acting on intelligence reports, the EFCC had arrested the convict at Bolari…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prophet T.B. Joshua was physically attacked by a ‘demon’ that had possessed a woman who he was praying for. The woman, Mrs Cecilia Mpofu Nyachuru, visited SCOAN for deliverance from an addiction called pica disorder. Pica disorder is a psychological disorder characterized by an appetite for eating anthill soil and crushed stones….
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two pastors, Chukwuka Stephen and Ejim Stephen, for allegedly killing their brother-in-law, Peter Chukwuyem, in the Papa-Ibafo area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a statement on Thursday that the suspects, while living with Chukwuyem, were…
t LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday affirmed the election of Dr. Kayode Fayemi as Governor of Ekiti State. A three man panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal, led by Justice Stephen Adah, in a judgment delivered Thursday dismissed the appeal filed by the candidate of the Peoples…