LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted many students of Kaya Junior Secondary School in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Witness revealed that the gunmen who came on motorcycles stormed the school on Wednesday afternoon, shooting sporadically. “There was an abduction of students just now in Kaya town, Maradun Local…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Ministers of Power, Saleh Mamman and his Agriculture and Rural Development counterpart, Alhaji Sabo Nanono. The President also announced the redeployment of two Ministers to take over from them. The Minister of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud Abubakar is to take over as the Minister of Agriculture and…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The recent release of three separate groups of students who had been abducted in northern Nigeria brought joyful reunions and the hope that others still held might soon be freed. Now just days later gunmen have again attacked a school in the northwest, taking 73 new hostages. Before Wednesday’s attack some 1,000…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former British soldier’s mission to evacuate 400 Afghans via a third country has failed after a coach of his staff was turned away at a land border between Afghanistan and a third country. Ben Slater, a former soldier in the Royal Military Police who now runs a chain of NGOs, is…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives Committee on Customs has given the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) two weeks to reduce its 18 cargo clearing stages to four. The committee made the resolution on Tuesday, in Abuja, after an interactive session with stakeholders. It insisted that the Comptroller General of Customs should appear in person…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS0-The Abia Government has appealed for calm over the death of one Sunday Ugba, a Deacon at the Assemblies of God Church, who died on Monday night, along with six other persons in his house in Umuahia. Ugba and others, including four children that came on holiday in his house, died after…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Thompson Usiyan, former Green Eagles of Nigeria player is dead. He died at the age of 65 in his Lamest, Redonda Beach home, California, United States. A family member of Usiyan put a call to Sokonnect about 12:15p.m to confirm the death. However, details about his death are still sketchy as at…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Real Madrid moved to sign one French international star on Europe’s transfer deadline day on Tuesday with Eduardo Camavinga arriving from Rennes, but their attempts to prise Kylian Mbappe from Paris Saint-Germain look unlikely to succeed for now. Midfield prodigy Camavinga, who is just 18, penned a six-year deal at the Santiago…