LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors of the 36 States of the federation on Wednesday “unanimously” agreed to the implementation of an inter-State lockdown in the country over the next two weeks to mitigate the spread of the pandemic COVID-19 virus from State to State. The governors, operating under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF),…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has appointed Mr. Dan Okoro, a retired Commissioner of Police (CP) as his Special Adviser on Security. Okoro comes into the job with a huge experience garnered both nationally and internationally over the years as a tested cop. Okoro is expected to assist Governor Uzodimma in…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The ravaging Coronavirus has claimed the life of a Deputy Commissioner of Police attached to the Zone 5 headquarters of the Nigeria Police in Benin City. Informed sources confirmed that the Police Officer, a Lawyer from Cross River State, “suddenly fell ill on the 14th of April and was being managed by…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Igando residents allegedly killed three suspected members of a robbery gang who invaded their community, then dumped their bodies in a canal. Residents claim the suspects were members of the “One Million Boys” robbery gang, who had earlier written a letter warning residents to keep money for them that they were going…
LAGOS APIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Founder Resurrection Praise Ministries for Africa, Archbishop Samson Benjamin has been arrested by the Police in Lagos. The clergyman known as Jehovah Sharp Sharp was arrested for allegedly invading the Chinese Embassy with about 100 of his followers to protest the recent ill-treatment meted out to some Nigerians by the Chinese government…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown armed men have kidnapped an about-to-wed couple in Tegina Kabata in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. The couple were undergoing a wedding solemnisation in a church in the community when the gunmen invaded the church and whisked them and others away. This was disclosed at a press conference by…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lebanese identified as Wael Jerro has claimed on Facebook that he has a Nigerian woman for sale at $1000. The director-general of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons Dame Julie Okah-Donli told The Guardian on Tuesday that NAPTIP investigators were already working on the case. Renee Abisaad, who first…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State government has released 249 inmates across the state. The Chief Judge of the state, Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu, disclosed this on Monday while conducting the special jail delivery exercise at the Judiciary Complex in Abeokuta, the state capital. She explained that the move was part of measures to contain the…