Archive for: December, 2020

Nigeria’s Freed Shoolboys Tell Tale Of Horror, Beatings And Hunger

LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tired, hungry and dazed – Nigeria’s freed schoolboys arrived back home on Friday (December 18), having been rescued from their captors. As they got off buses in the city of Katsina, many of them appeared to be barefoot and were wrapped in blankets after a week-long ordeal. Gunmen on motorbikes had raided […]

Dec 19 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Rescued Nigerian Schoolboys Welcomed Home, Calls For More Security

LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state Friday. Reunions that are more celebratory and emotional likely will come when the boys are finally reunited with their families, […]

Dec 19 2020 | Posted in Features,State | Read More »

Why Nigeria Is No.2 Bitcoin Market On The Fast-Growing Global Marketplace

LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-During the police brutality protests in Nigeria in October, bitcoin saved the day when the government shut out protesters from using local payment platforms for collecting donations to support it. The young, tech-savvy protesters quickly switched to using bitcoin, and in about a week bitcoin accounted for around 40% of the nearly […]

Dec 19 2020 | Posted in Business,National | Read More »

Lewandowski Beats Messi, Ronaldo To Emerge Best FIFA Men’s Player Award

LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayern Munich star won the fifth edition of the annual awards after helping the Bundesliga giants to a historic treble. Robert Lewandowski has been named The Best FIFA Men’s Player of the Year for 2020, with the Bayern Munich star beating Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to the coveted prize. The […]

Dec 18 2020 | Posted in National,Sports | Read More »

Ex-Zamfara Gov, Yerima, Joins 2023 Presidential Race On The Platform Of APC

LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, has declared his intention to vie for Nigeria’s presidency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in 2023. He said this at a media briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. According to him, he had on three occasions stepped down to enable […]

Dec 18 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Insecurity: Governorship Candidate Drags Buhari To Court Over Refusal To Sack Service Chiefs

LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to sack all the service chiefs over their alleged failure to curb insecurity in the country. In the suit that was lodged by the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in Adamawa State, Alhaji Said Uba, […]

Dec 18 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Seme Land Border Remains Closed, Twenty Four Hours After FG Order

LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s land border with Benin Republic at Seme, near Badagry, Lagos State, remained closed, more than 24 hours after the Federal Government announced its reopening on Wednesday. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited Seme on Thursday evening, reports that human and vehicular movement across the border post […]

Dec 18 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Abducted Katsina Secondary Schoolboys Regain Freedom

LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six days after their abduction, students of Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina State have been freed, the Secretary to the Katsina State Government, Mustapha Inuwa, said. Earlier, the terror group, Boko Haram, claimed responsibility of the abduction and subsequently released a video that showed some of the boys believed to […]

Dec 18 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Security Operatives Nabbed Ex-Lawmaker For Alleged Link With Boko Haram

LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroonian security operatives have arrested a former member of the parliament Blama Malla for alleged ties with the Boko Haram terrorist group, HumAngle reports. Malla is a member of the country’s ruling party – Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement (CPDM). Multiple security sources told HumAngle that Blama Malla is being held in the […]

Dec 18 2020 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Hoodlums Set Benin Traditional Ruler’s Palace Ablaze

LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Palace of the Enogie of Ukhiri in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, His Royal Highness, Godwin Aigbe has been set ablaze by suspected hoodlums. It was gathered that the incident which happened a fortnight ago left some of the inherited artefects and age long traditional items in the […]

Dec 18 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »
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