LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A five-member crew of a Ghanaian flagged fishing vessel has been abducted by some suspected Nigeria gangs at sea. The Motor Vessel (MV) Atlantic Princess was said to have been abducted 70 nautical miles south of Tema in the early hours of last Thursday, May 20, 2021. According to reliable sources, there…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Indigenous People of Biafra has formed an alliance with a pro-independence movement in western Cameroon, ‘Ambazonia Governing Council.’ The alliance between the separatist groups will see them exchange weapons and personnel to enable them to achieve their breakaway agenda. IPOB is seeking to break the South-East away from Nigeria to form…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, has tackled the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and other South-West All Progressives Congress leaders for opposing “separatist agitations”. The PUNCH had reported that Tinubu and other APC leaders in the South-West, including Chief Bisi Akande, had at…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four suspected armed robbers have been arrested for hijacking a trailer load of Golden Penny flour long Shagamu-Ijebu Ode Expressway of Ogun State. The suspects who carted away the items on April 16 were arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command on May 5, police authorities confirmed to Channels Television…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has concluded plans to temporarily relocate the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation from Afaka to a safer location within the Kaduna metropolis. This was also as the government announced that it would now shoulder the responsibility of paying the school fees of all the 37 kidnapped and released students….
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chief in Zimbabwe has ordered the exhumation and reburial of Robert Mugabe’s remains at the national heroes’ shrine in Harare after accusing the late leader’s wife of breaking local custom by interring him at his rural home in 2019. Mugabe, who was ousted in a coup that brought Emmerson Mnangagwa to…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of protesters partially blocked a highway into Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Monday after residents reported a spate of kidnappings in the area. Setting tyres on fire, a crowd barricaded a section of the Abuja-Kaduna highway in the Tafa area of Niger state, bordering the federal capital, an AFP journalist at the…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military officers in Mali detained the president, prime minister and defence minister of the interim government on Monday, deepening political chaos just months after a military coup ousted the previous president, multiple sources told Reuters. President Bah Ndaw, Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and defence minister Souleymane Doucoure were all taken to a…