Archive for: January, 2020

Peter Obi Narrates His Encounters With Nzeribe

LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has described Hon. Chuma Nzeribe as one man that loves Anambra State demonstrably. Obi was speaking Wednesday during the requiem mass for Nzeribe’s mother presided by the Emeritus Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Mbaise, Most Rev. Dr. Peter Okpaleke. […]

Bayelsa Outage: Ijaw Youths Vacate PHEDC Offices As Firm Pledges To Restore Power

 LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State government on Wednesday evening resolved the rift between Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) and Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) which let to power cut since Dec 23, 2019.  Mr Kenedy Olorogun, Chairman, Central Zone of the IYC , who confirmed the development in a telephone interview said the youths have […]

ICC Lists Nigeria Among Eleven Countries Under Probe For War Crime Prosecution

LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Nigeria continues to defend its territorial integrity against terrorist groups, the office of the prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) has outlined 10 possible cases it could press against Nigerian security forces and the three factions of insurgent groups operating under the popular name of Boko Haram. The ICC prosecutor […]

Two Earthquakes Hit Iran Hours After Missile Strike, Plane Crash

LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran was struck by two earthquakes near a nuclear power plant on Wednesday after a chaotic day that saw the country launch missiles at two U.S. military bases in Iraq before a passenger plane crashed and killed dozens in an unrelated incident. According to the Washington Post, a 4.9 magnitude earthquake hit […]

Dangote Plans To Open U.S. Office to Help Preserve Family Wealth

LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS-Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, plans to take office space in New York to help diversify his investments and avoid the risk of currency fluctuations on his home continent. The owner of the biggest cement company in sub-Saharan Africa will use the base and an existing one in London to become more […]

Man In Court For Stabbing 78-Year-Old Father To Death With Broken Bottle

LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANERS)-A hairdresser, Ms Patience Oamen, yesterday told an Ikeja High Court how her 38-year-old brother, Nelson Oamen, allegedly stabbed their 78-year-old father to death with a broken bottle. Nelson, a carpenter, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), was arraigned on July 10, 2019, on a charge of murder, contrary to Section […]

M.K.O Abiola’s Children In Legal Battle Over Father’s Company

LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the management of Radio Communication Nigeria Limited, RCN, one of the companies owned by the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 election, late M.K.O Abiola has snowballed into legal hostilities. Two administrators and personal representatives to the Estate of the deceased business mogul, Boma Alabi,Timothy Hugh Daniel, alongside two […]

Senegalese Forward, Sadio Mane Beats Salah, Mahrez To Emerge Africa Best Footballer

LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senegalese forward Sadio Mane has won the 2019 CAF African Player of the Year award. He beats Liverpool’s teammate Mohammed Salah and Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez to win the award at the annual awards ceremony staged in Hurghada on Tuesday. Mane has been a finalist in the previous three editions of the […]

Tankers, Trailers Turn Newly Commissioned Lagos-Badagry Highway To Parking Space

LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Temporary relief came the way of motorists plying the the completed section of the Lagos-Badagry expressway declared open for use by governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state, but it appears, that, that excitement that greeted the commissioning of the Agboju to Trade Fair stretch of the highway is fading away as tankers […]

Nigeria Army Theatre Commander Dislodges Boko Haram’s Ambush, Seizes Arms, Ammunition

LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has confirmed an ambush by the Boko Haram terrorists on the convoy of the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD), Maj.-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi. The Nigerian Army Operations Media Coordinator, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, in a statement on Tuesday, disclosed that the attack took place about two Kilometers to Auno […]

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