LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Soldiers of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) have begun a manhunt for suspected attackers who ambushed fellow soldiers in a rural community in Konshisha council area of Benue. The attackers on Monday evening seized some soldiers deployed to maintain peace between two warring communities of Konshisha and Oju LGAs respectively. It was learnt…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have razed another police station in Imo State few hours after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and outgoing Inspector General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Adamu left Owerri, the Imo State capital. Osinbajo and other officials of the Federal Government, including Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola, had visited the state to inspect the…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has been excluded from the list of 28 countries granted debt pardon by the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Board has approved a third tranche of grants for debt service relief for 28 member countries under the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT). This approval followed two…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has appointed a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, as the acting Inspector-General of Police with immediate effect. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, disclosed this to State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday. Baba is taking over from Mohammed Adamu, whose tenure Buhari…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has told a Federal High Court in Abuja that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is not eligible under the constitution to contest for President. Malami said this in an affidavit in support of a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/177/2019 and filed before…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has confirmed his younger brother Tene Birahima Ouattara as minister of defence, part of a slate of new appointments announced on Tuesday. The new defence minister will have to contend with Islamist violence spilling over from Burkina Faso in the north, and continue reforms that have calmed…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Minister of Transportation, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has stirred controversy online as a young boy who is Reportedly her cousin’s son was seen protesting against the President, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), in London. The young boy was pictured with a placard with the inscription: “Buhari you are wicked. Children of my age are…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu has ordered immediate deployment of additional units of Police Mobile Force (PMF) and other Police Tactical Squads to Imo State to strengthen security in the State and prevent further attacks on security formations or any other critical national infrastructure in the State. The IGP gave…