LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Fresh revelations have emerged on how Boko Haram insurgents attacked Garkida town in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State for six hours on Friday night. The town is located on the Gombi-Biu – Damaturu Road, which shares proximity with Southern Borno and Sambisa Forest. Reports say police barracks, churches and a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The European Union is planning to tighten procedures for Nigerians to get a Schengen visa in response to the country failing to take back Nigerians staying illegally in Europe. The EU Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Virginie Battu-Henriksson, said, “What the EU can do since new rules on short-stay visas…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kaduna State High Court has discharged and acquitted 91 members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN). The presiding judge, Justice Hajaratu Gwada, acquitted the defendants of the charges filed against them by the state government in her judgement delivered on Friday. The freed members of the Shiite group were arrested…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa presided over by HON. JUSTICE A. O AWOGBORO, has issued warrant of arrest on UBA PLC and four (4) members of it’s staff for failing to appear in court even after they were served charge NO:FHC|YNG|10c|2019 by substituted means. It would be…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Pastor Richard Ifeanyi Obi who was on a mission to conduct deliverance for a family was found dead in his hotel room at No. 5 Onuorah Street, Amaenyi Awka, Anambra State. The deceased was said to be in the town from Warri, Delta state to conduct prayers for a family when the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-There was panic at Alaiyiama, Obollo community, in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, following the beheading of a 68-year-old woman, Mrs Augustina Inebere. This is even as the police arrested the Pastor-in-Charge of Arm of the Lord Church, Goddy Onyeho, for allegedly giving what the police called a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-World boxing champion Anthony Joshua is enjoying his stay in Nigeria, with a visit Thursday night to the Afrika Shrine in Ikeja Lagos, where he was hosted by the high priest, Femi Kuti. Joshua was a humble champion all over again, as he prostrated to Femi, in the typical Yoruba tradition of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A fresh crisis looms in the country as stakeholders yesterday rejected a move by the Senate to establish an agency to make life comfortable for ‘repentant’ Boko Haram terrorists irrespective of their wanton destruction of lives and property. Specifically, ignoring persistent public outcry against the release of the suspected insurgents, the Senate…