Archive for: March, 2021

Gov’s Aide Slumps, Dies During wedding Ceremony In A Mosque

LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alhaji Rabe Ibrahim Jibia, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Aminu Bello Masari on Security Matters (Daura Zone), is dead. Daily Trust gathered that Jibia slumped and died at Banu Kumassie Juma’at Mosque, GRA Katsina, while attending the wedding Fatiha of the daughters of the Special Adviser to the governor on Security Matters, […]

Edo State Gov. Charges Customs To Stop Harassment Of People In Edo State

LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo’s Government Godwin Obaseki on Monday in Benin charged men of the Nigerian Customs Service to stop intimidating and extorting people in the state. He gave the charge when the Customs Area Controller in Edo and Delta, Ahmed Usman, paid him a courtesy visit. In Usman’s company was the Commandant of the […]

PDP Suspends Former Niger State Governor

LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu has been suspended from the people’s Democratic Party in Chanchaga Local Government Area. This decision according to a communique issued at the end of a stakeholders’ meeting in Minna was as a result of 6 weighty allegations which the party in his LGA finds very […]

Nigerians’ Hunger For Bitcoins Grows Despite Ban

LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When Nigerian office worker Chigoziri Okeke bought cryptocurrency for the first time in 2016, he was only looking to make an online payment. But the 10 percent gain on his wallet’s balance after a few days fired up the 27-year-old’s interest. Now, the Lagos resident has more than $50,000 worth of different […]

Lady Kills Her One-Month-Old Baby, Dumps Corpse In Ogun River

LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ogun State Police Command has arrested Sukurat Olajoke, 35, for allegedly killing her- month-old -a baby girl. The suspect, who allegedly dumped it in the Ogun river, has confessed that she killed the baby out of frustration because the man responsible for the pregnancy rejected it. Olajoke who had six children for […]

Abba Kyari Led Police Team Storms Makurdi To Investigate Attack On Gov Ortom

LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Special Investigation Task Force set up by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Abubakar  Adamu  in continuation of ongoing investigation into  the reported attack and attempted murder of the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has arrived Makurdi, the Benue State capital.  A press statement signed  by CP Frank Mba of Police […]

OPL 245: Groups Urge Nigeria To Press On With Corruption Charges Against Eni, Shell Despite Italy Ruling

LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The partial freedom granted oil giants by Italian courts  in the celebrated OPL 245 corruption case will not stop the prosecution of the accused in Nigeria, a foremost global anti-corruption coalition has said. In a letter addressed to President Muhammad Buhari, the world acclaimed anti-corruption coalition said Nigeria should press on with […]

Police Arrest 16, Recover Arms Over Unprovoked Attacks Of Security Operatives Across Nigeria

LAGOS MARCH 29TH )NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested sixteen  suspects for complicity in a series of violent and unprovoked attacks on security operatives and facilities in some states of the Federation, particularly in the South-Eastern part of Nigeria. The arrest, according to a press statement  signed by CP Frank Mba of Police […]

Tanzania’s New President Suspends Heads Of Ports Authority Over Corruption Allegation

LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tanzania’s new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, on Sunday ordered the suspension of the head of the ports authority over corruption allegations, continuing her late predecessor’s anti-graft drive. Observers have been keen to see signs of policy direction from Hassan, who was sworn in on March 19 after John Magufuli died, and whose […]

Ex-US President, Barack Obama’s Kenyan Grandmother Dies At 99

LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barack Obama’s step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, has died at a hospital in Kenya at the age of 99. Affectionately called Granny Sarah by the former president, Mrs Obama defended her grandson during his 2008 presidential campaign, when he was said to be Muslim and not born in the US. Her home became a […]

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