LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than twenty people, many of them women and children, were trampled to death on Monday in a stampede for food and money for refugees in southeast Niger, sources said. “We have a provisional toll of 20 dead,” a medical source said. Aid workers confirmed the account and said about 10…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from deregistering 35 political parties in the country. Justice Anwuli Chikere gave the interlocutory order on Monday at the hearing of a suit by some of the parties recently deregistered by the electoral body. The Judge said the electoral…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 140 young and talented people from eight states of the Niger Delta have graduated from the special Shell LiveWIRE Nigeria entrepreneurial training programme, which provides business and financial support to enable them to establish small and medium scale businesses. Drawn from Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross Rivers, Delta, Edo,…
LAGOS FEBRUAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Boko Haram terrorist group rejected the ransom offered by the Federal Government to secure the release of Leah Sharibu, sources at the Presidency said on Sunday. Sharibu, a schoolgirl, is the only Dapchi schoolgirl still held hostage out of the 110 kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from the Government…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Abdullahi Dikko. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu issued the warrant over Mr Dikko’s sustained failure to attend court to answer to a charge of fraud brought against him and…
LAGOS FABRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Gunmen killed 24 men, including a church pastor, and kidnapped three others on Sunday in Burkina Faso, an official said. It was the latest attack against a religious leader in the increasingly unstable West African nation. The mayor of Boundore commune, Sihanri Osangola Brigadie, said the attack occurred in the town…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday ruled out any fresh governorship election in Bayelsa State as requested by the All Progressives Congress. INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, in an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, dismissed the APC’s demand for a fresh governorship poll in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The newly consecrated bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Aba, Most Rev. Prof. Augustine Echema, has called on Nigerians in all walks of life to emulate former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi. The cleric was speaking on Sunday at Christ the King Catholic Church, Aba, during his first mass as the…
