LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected armed bandits have attacked the Goronyo market in Goronyo Local Government Area in the Eastern Senatorial District of Sokoto State. Sources in the village said the assailants attacked the market in large numbers on Sunday night, shooting sporadically and killing several persons. The actual number of casualties was yet to be…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi has denied reacting to the invitation sent to him by the EFCC as being circulated on different media platforms. The said reaction quoted Obi as requesting the EFCC to make their investigations public, among other out-of-character remarks. The…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has made a U-turn on its earlier warning against any gathering or organisation of protest in commemoration of the first anniversary of last year’s #EndSARS protest in the state. Addressing journalists on Saturday while monitoring the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state congress election in Lagos,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18 (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, a coalition of Northern Youth has begun an awareness campaign to gather support for Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo in Kano. The group under the auspices of Osinbajo Awareness Campaign (OAC) stated that it will mobilize 20 million youths across the 19 Northern states and Federal…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has denied allegations that the service paid money to bandits operating in Katsina forest in exchange for a sophisticated weapon allegedly seized by the brigands. The Wall Street Journal had earlier reported that NAF, via its top personnel paid the sum of N20 Million to bandits operating…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In the next 20 days ahead of the November governorship election, there are strong indications that there is going to be a 10 million man protest against the plot to manipulate the exercise and against what has been described as the politically motivated killings in the area and South East in general….
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The United Kingdom government has warned its citizens in Nigeria against visiting Delta State and eleven other states in Nigeria over possible terror attacks. The advisory from the UK through its Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) followed concerns on the possibility of terrorists carrying out attacks in Nigeria. In a statement published…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the amendment to the Electoral Act is ongoing at the National Assembly, last Tuesday’s amendment of the Senate’s earlier clause, where it gave political parties the option of direct and indirect primaries as a mode of selecting candidates for general elections, is already generating agitation among political parties and leaders across…