Archive for: August, 2020

Missing Gigantic UNIBEN Multi-Million Naira Artwork Found In Benin Billionaire Farm

LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A multi-million naira artwork which has been missing from the University of Benin, Ekenhuan Campus, has been traced to the farm of Benin billionaire, Captain Hosa Okunbo. Raising the alarm in Lagos, a member of the Community of Visual Artists in Nigeria, Akin Sage, said: “The title of the artwork is 21st […]

Scores Killed, Hundreds Displaced As Boko Haram Strikes Again In Borno Community

LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram terrorists have invaded many communities in Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State, killing scores of farmers and herders after rustling hundreds of their domestic animals, mostly cows. Magumeri is North and about 40 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital, which has witnessed a series of Boko Haram attacks. One […]

Ikeja Court Fines Oshodi LGA N1m For Obtaining N28,000 From Motorist Over Traffic Offence

LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja High Court has ordered Oshodi Local Government Area (LGA) of Lagos to pay N1Million compensation to a motorist, Mr Louis Idahosa for extorting him of N28,000 for allegedly driving against traffic (one-way).  Delivering judgment, Justice Obafemi Adamson said that local governments lack the constitutional power to impound vehicles and to […]

PDP Carpets Buhari Over Comments on Use Of Military To Overrun Elections

PRESS STATEMENT The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says that it is a sad commentary for President Muhammadu Buhari, who won election on a free ballot in 2015 to contemplate or bemoan how he could have used security agencies to undermine the integrity of the electoral process in our country. Nigerians are aware that in the […]

Buhari Explains Why APC Did Not Use Military To Overrun 2019 General Elections

LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has told Nigerians that his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, could have used the military to overrun opposition states but instead chose to be impartial during the 2019 general elections. Buhari said this when governors from the Northeast met with him and the Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo […]

Secure Anchorage Area: N-Delta Stakeholders Fault Plot To Terminate OMS’s Contract

LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stakeholders from the coastal and  riverine communities in Niger Delta region  have warned against the abrupt dismantling of Secure Anchorage Area SAA in Lagos being handled by a capable and competent indigenous company. The stakeholders also faulted the plot by the Ministry of Transportation and Nigerian Port Authority NPA to terminate the […]

Why So Many African Americans Have Nigerian Ancestry

LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-During the period of the transatlantic slave trade, more than 12.5 million enslaved persons were shipped from Africa to the Americas with about 3.5 million of them from Nigeria. Today there are communities of people with Nigerian ancestry mostly in Brazil, Cuba, and Jamaica who have retained some some of their ancestral […]

Obaseki: Don’t Blame Edo People If They Resort To Self-Defense Against Oshiomhole’s Use Of Violence

LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that Edo people should not be blamed if they resort to self-defense against former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, who is unleashing violence and using assassins against perceived opponents. The governor said this after inspecting the residence of […]

Magu: FCMB Admits Posting N573m to Prophet Omale In Error

LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Adam Nuru, Managing Director of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), says the bank made an error of posting N573 million into the church account of Emmanuel Omale.  The Presidential Committee on Audit of Recovered Assets (PCARA) had accused Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), of […]

Nigerians Carpet Diezani For Criticizing Yahoo Boys, Tag Her “Hushmummy”

LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has come under heavy criticism for saying that internet fraudsters, popularly called Yahoo Boys have become role models in Nigeria. The former minister, while delivering a lecture at a virtual event organised by the Ijaw National Development Group, cautioned that the new trend ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ […]

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