LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ukraine will repatriate troops and equipment, including helicopters, involved in U.N. peacekeeping missions in Africa and Europe to bolster defences at home in the face of Russia’s invasion, a U.N. official said. Russian troops invaded Ukraine nearly two weeks ago, shelling, bombing and besieging its cities and towns and forcing more than…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Joseph Egbunike, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), has reportedly died. Egbunike, who recently headed the police internal panel probing the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, was said to have slumped and died inside his office at the Louis Edet…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the intensified Russia-Ukraine war and amounting to a major setback for Ukrainian forces, on Tuesday, March 8, Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych urged incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky to call off the resistance and stop combatting foreign troops. Diluting the Kremlin-led full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, the ousted Head of State of Ukraine concluded that the ongoing…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Senator Ademola Adeleke was on Tuesday declared winner of the governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State. The governorship election is scheduled to hold on July 16. The PDP primary, held at the 10,000 capacity Oshogbo stadium, was also contested by Dotun Babayemi. The primary election…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the immediate evacuation of all impounded, accidented and unregistered exhibit vehicles from Police Stations nationwide. The order is predicated on the incessant embarrassing and unprofessional manner in which these vehicles are stacked within police facilities causing nuisance and disgusting sight at…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed willingness to discuss Russia’s demands for Kyiv to recognize annexed Crimea and the breakaway pro-Moscow territories in an interview with ABC News published Tuesday. “I think that items regarding temporarily occupied territories and pseudo-republics not recognized by anyone but Russia, we can discuss and find a…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government through the Nigeria Customs Service on Monday announced a 31-day suspension of the controversial electronic valuation system for imported vehicles, also known as Vehicle Identification Number valuation. The announcement came over two weeks after clearing agent associations at Lagos ports embarked on an indefinite strike over what they described…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, has rejected the court’s ruling which ordered his removal from office. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had earlier on Tuesday sacked Umahi and his deputy, Dr. Kelechi Igwe, over their defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC). He held that the votes…