LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Technical problems hit a governorship election in Nigeria’s southeastern state of Anambra on Saturday during a vote seen as a test of the electoral system less than 18 months before presidential polls. More than 30,000 police were dispatched to secure Anambra after a string of attacks in the southeast blamed on separatists…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Niger has declared two days of national mourning from Friday, after at least 69 people were killed in an attack by suspected Islamist insurgents. The attack happened in the country’s south-west, near the border with Mali. Victims included a local mayor and the leader of a self-defence militia, the government said. A…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Thursday disguised his convoy and visited some Government healthcare centres unannounced, during which he found some officials collecting between N8,000 to N10,000 from patients, whereas the services are meant to be provided free of charge. Zulum summoned the State’s Commissioner of Health, Mrs. Juliana Bitrus,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three days after he was detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for alleged money laundering, popular socialite and businessman, Obinna Iyiegbu, aka Obi Cubana, has been released The Anambra-born club owner, who was arrested on Monday, breathed the air of freedom on Thursday evening. The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The body of the Managing Director, Fourscore Homes, Femi Osibona, has been recovered from the rubble of the collapsed Ikoyi building. Fourscore Homes is the firm constructing the 21-storey building which collapsed on Monday, on Gerrard Road in Ikoyi, Lagos. The National Emergency Management Agency confirmed this to TheCable on Thursday evening…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Indigenous People of Biafra has cancelled its one-week sit-at-home order it issued across the South-East. IPOB said it called off the order after consultations with elders, traditional, and religious leaders from the region. The group’s Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday after…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The South-East Governors’ Forum has said that criminals are using the name of the Indigenous People of Biafra to kill innocent citizens. The Forum said this while calling on security agencies to secure the lives of citizens of Anambra State ahead of the governorship election in the state slated for November 6….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of Katsina Police Command has apprehended an Islamic cleric, Jamilu Idris of Sabon-Fegi, Yankara village, Faskari Local Government Area of the state for allegedly masterminding the kidnapping of his cousin’s four year old son, Umar Farouk Kabir. Report made available to NewsRangers by the Katsina State Police Public Relation Officer, PPRO,…