Archive for: May, 2022

Prophet Who Predicted Obi’s Emergence As PDP  Presidential Candidate Says His Withdrawal Is In ‘Error’

  LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prophet Godfrey Gbujie, Ministerial Leader of World Zionist Union in the South-East, Nigeria, has expressed shock over the sudden withdrawal of Mr Peter Obi from the 2023 presidential race. Gbujie had announced on May 18, 2022, that God revealed to him that Obi would emerge the presidential standard bearer for the […]

Suspected Kidnappers Kill Soldier, Driver, Abduct Lebanese In Ondo

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, have killed a soldier and abducted a Lebanese engineer at Ogbonmo Ijebu-Owo, Owo local government area. Witnesses said the gunmen also killed driver of the Lebanese. The incident was said to have happened at about 5pm on Wednesday. Ondo police spokesman, SP Fumilayo Odunlami, who confirmed the […]

Grounded First Nation’s Multimillion-Dollar Air Bus Sold As Scrap, Towed To Oyo

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Airbus A320 jet belonging to First Nation has been sold as scrap to a yet-to-be-identified buyer, findings by The PUNCH have shown. The development came about four years after the carrier grounded its operations for technical reasons. The buyer of the disused plane has consequently towed the equipment to a town […]

2023: Mixed Reactions Trail  Peter Obi Dumping PDP, Presidential Ambition

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reactions have trailed the resignation of Peter Obi as member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential. DAILY POST had reported that Obi had on Wednesday announced his resignation from the opposition party. He said recent developments within the party made it practically impossible to continue participating and making constructive contributions. “Our […]

75-Year-Old US Woman Who Visits 36-Year-Old Nigeria Husband Slumps, Dies In Ubah

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Homicide detectives attached to the Victoria Island Police Station, have launched investigations into the mysterious death of a 75-year-old American identified as Doris Samuel, who died moments after coming to Nigeria to join her 36-year-old husband, Okelue Kingsley. It was gathered that the deceased came to Nigeria to meet Kingsley so that […]

How Nigeria Youths Persuaded Peter Obi To Dump PDP

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Last weekend’s massive mobilisation by Nigerian youths who planned the one million-man march, on Saturday, was the final push Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State needed to finally pull out of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Until the event, Obi, who was the candidate of the opposition party for the Vice […]

CBN Denies Media Report Over Sack Of Bank’s Governor, Emefiele

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The CBN says online media reports purporting the sacking of the bank’s governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, is untrue. Head of Corporate Communications at the CBN, Osita Nwanisiobi, made the rebuttal on Wednesday in Abuja . Emefiele is currently out of the country on official assignment. African Examiner reports that Emefiele has been […]

Peter Obi Tender Letter Of Resignation From PDP, Withdraws From Presidential Race

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A presidential aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has dumped the party. In a letter addressed to the National Chairman of the party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, titled ‘Resignation From Peoples Democratic and Withdrawal From the Presidential Contest’, the former governor said he was happy […]

Burkina Faso Customs Intercept 115kg Of Cocaine Worth $11.5m

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Customs officers in Burkina Faso seized a record haul of around 115 kilograms of cocaine worth more than $11.5 million last week, the directorate general of customs said in a statement on Wednesday. The drugs were intercepted on Thursday along the main road linking the southwestern city of Bobo to the capital […]

Should Payment Of Ransom To Kidnappers Be Banned

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Having paid a ransom three times to secure the freedom of his loved ones, Nigerian businessman Lawal Ado is not impressed by moves to outlaw payments to kidnappers. A controversial bill to criminalise ransom payments is the latest attempt to curb the country’s spiralling and lucrative kidnapping industry. It proposes a jail […]

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