LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Gunmen suspected to be militants on Sunday, invaded Peremabiri community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and set ablaze about 20 houses. It was gathered that the armed men stormed Peremabiri in 50 speedboats in a bid to take control of the community from an ex-militant leader, Paul Eris, popularly known…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Caretaker Management Committee of Balogun market, Lagos Trade Fair Complex, has shifted its resumption, earlier scheduled for Jan. 4, to Jan. 11, for security reasons, the Secretary of the committee, Mr Leonard Ogbonnia has said. Ogbonnia said in a statement on Sunday, in Lagos, that it would be risky to reopen…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are indications that the Nigerian Police Council may nominate a new Inspector-General of Police by February. It is unclear if the current Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, will get a tenure extension but unconfirmed sources said his successor may be announced. The council, which is chaired by the President, comprises the…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Napoli coach Gennaro Gattuso said Sunday he felt foolish for giving Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen permission to travel home for Christmas with the forward testing positive for coronavirus on his return. Osimhen faces club sanctions after images of him partying without wearing a mask were shared on social media. But Gattuso said…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, who hasn’t been seen in public for several weeks after criticising China’s financial regulatory system, has now disappeared as a judge on a TV talent show that he created. Mr Ma was absent from the final of “The Apprentice”-style “Africa’s Business Heroes”, a show that offers budding African…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A stowaway who clung to the undercarriage of a jumbo jet and survived an 11-hour, 5,639-mile flight from South Africa to London has spoken for the first time of his terrifying journey. He recalled how he emerged from a coma months later to learn his best friend had fallen 5,000ft from the…
LAGOS JNAUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran talk show host Larry King has been hospitalized in Los Angeles with COVID-19. The 87-year-old broadcasting legend has survived multiple health scares in the past, including a heart attack, a stroke, prostate and lung cancer and diabetes. He spent his 87th birthday, in November, hospitalized with a blood-flow issue. The former CNN…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed bandits have killed the chief Imam of Kawaran Rafi village Danleeman Isah and a community leader in Nisama village Yohanna Abu. In a statement sent on Saturday, the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said the Muslim cleric was killed for preaching against banditry and killings in the area….