LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hadiza Bala Usman, suspended Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), has said the allegations of financial misappropriation leveled against her are false. Usman in a letter to the Chief of Staff to the president, Amb. Ibrahim Gambari, dated May 5, a copy of which was made available to our reporter,…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the leadership of its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged Muslims across the country to look for the new moon of Shawwal on Tuesday. The Deputy Secretary-General, NSCIA, Prof. Salisu Shehu, said this on Saturday in a…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two members of a smuggling syndicate were confirmed dead, while five security operatives sustained varying degrees of gunshot injuries during a gun duel between smugglers and a joint border patrol team of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on Thursday at the Oja Odan area of Yewa North local government area of Ogun…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops and police operatives in the early hours of today, Friday, 7th May, 2021 engaged bandits in the Rigachikun axis of the Kaduna-Zaria dual carriage way in Igabi LGA. The bandits had earlier attacked a Fulani settlement belonging to a popular herder, Damina Kukumake, at Kukumake village Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Friday night attacked security checkpoints and police stations in Rivers State, with no fewer than seven security operatives feared killed. The hoodlums attacked a police station along the Rumuji axis of the East-West Road in the state Also, the Rumuji police station in Emuoha Local Government Area was also torched;…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to “focus energy, time and resources (on) any form of propaganda against religious leaders who disagree with (his) performance.” In a statement on Thursday signed by its president, Augustine Akubeze, the CBCN described the recent allegations by the presidency…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has said there is no plan to relocate its Africa Command from its current base in Germany to Nigeria or any other part of Africa despite the worsening state of insecurity in the region. The US gave the response barely two weeks after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Neymar pledged to help Paris Saint-Germain finally win the ever-elusive Champions League trophy after signing a three-year contract extension on Saturday, keeping the Brazil star at the ambitious club until 2025. PSG posted a video of Neymar wearing a jersey with 2025 on the back and saying “Ici c’est Paris” — ‘This…