Archive for: February, 2021

Councillorship Aspirant Disappears Mysteriously While Urinating In The Bush

LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command said it has commenced investigations into the sudden disappearance of Mr. Hanson Chuku, a graduate of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in Rivers State. Chuku, a councillorship aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rundele ward 7 in Emuoha Local Council of the state, […]

Nigeria Lawmakers Invite CBN Governor, DG SEC Over Cryptocurrency Ban

LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate has mandated its Committees on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, ICT and Cybercrimes and Capital Market to invite the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele to brief it on the recent ban on cryptocurrency in the country. The Senate also invited the Director General of the […]

Eight Islamic Militants Sentenced To Death For Killing Publisher

LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A special tribunal in Bangladesh’s capital on Wednesday sentenced to death eight Islamic militants for the 2015 killing of a publisher of books on secularism and atheism. Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal Judge Majibur Rahman announced the verdicts in a packed courtroom in the presence of six defendants. Another two, including sacked military official […]

Commuters, Motorists Scamper For Safety As ‘Agberos’ Clash In Lagos

LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS0-Commercial  and social activities were temporary truncated in the early hours of Thursday after factional members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers NURTW engaged themselves in a free for all at the thickly populated Obalende community in Lagos Island.  The cause of the fight has yet to be ascertained as […]

How Well Lateef Jakande Will Be Remembered

By Dr Qasim Akinreti LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For the death of Baba Lateef Kayode Jakande,LKJ, (Baba Kekere), Nigeria and Journalism profession lost another rare gem, a Journalist Per Excellence, administrator and sincere ,astute politician. Baba Jakande lived and died for the sustenable development of Nigeria ,Lagos State in particular and the growth of Journalism as […]

Gunmen Attack Lagos Bureau De Change, Cart Away Millions In Foreign Currency

LAGOS FEBRUARY 12H (NEWSRANGERS)-Some deadly armed robbers caused serious havoc at a popular Bureau De Change Market Plaza in Ikotun area of Lagos; carted away millions in foreign currencies and then escaped freely. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Kasam Plaza located along Idimu Road by College Bus Stop, Ikotun area of Lagos. The […]

Finally, Shell Admits To Stealing Of Nigeria’s Crude Oil

LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In what appears to be a brewing scandal, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, has balked and admitted to under-reporting the volume of crude oil it takes out of Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta and shortchanging the federal government in the process, THEWILL can authoritatively report. Two authoritative […]

First Batch Of 9800 Nigerian Refugees To Be Repatriated From Cameroon

LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is set to repatriate 9, 800 refugees from Cameroon to Nigeria as representatives have arrived in Marwa, in Cameroon to complete the move. The 9,800 refugees are those in the first phase of the repatriation from Cameroon from the 46,000 Nigerians taking refuge in Minawao camp in the country. According to […]

Lagos Court Remands Fisherman For Dumping Six-Week-Old Baby Into Lagoon

LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A magistrate court in Lagos on Wednesday February 10, remanded a 27-year-old fisherman, Fatai Yussuf in a custodial centre for allegedly killing his six-week-old daughter.  The suspect who is facing a count charge of murder, was accused of throwing his six-week-old daughter into a lagoon because she was sick. He reportedly committed the said offence on December 27, 2020 at […]

Husband Remanded Over Alleged Attempt To Use Wife For Money Ritual

LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate Court in Ilorin Magistrates on Wednesday remanded Usman Abdulkareem, a husband, at a correctional facility for allegedly conspiring with a local medicine man and a friend to abduct his wife, Mumeenat for money ritual. It was gathered that Abdulkareem conspired with the medicine man, Babatunde Mohammed and a friend Fatai […]

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