LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Campaign billboards of Senator Ademola Adeleke are being set ablaze in Ejigbo town, Ejigbo Local Government Area of Osun State. Sources told DAILY POST that a mob was observed destroying and tearing down the billboards in parts of the town. Senator Ademola Adeleke is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate for…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Governor of Anambra State and frontline aspirant for the 2023 presidency, Mr. Peter Obi, has described the problem with Nigeria as mostly economic. Obi was speaking on Monday in London shortly after the meeting of selected persons among the Commonwealth countries with the Prime Minister of Britain, Mr. Boris Johnson,…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court has sentenced a dismissed policeman, Mohammed Alidu to life imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old schoolgirl in a barrack. Judge Abiola Soladoye, in her ruling, said Mr Alidu was a disgrace to the police because he failed to uphold law and order and went about…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services (DSS) has dismissed a false online publication authored by one Adio Oluwole Bashir who purported to be a former staff of the Service. DSS in a statement signed by Public Relations Officer Department of State Services National HeadquartersAbuja, Peter Afunanya dated 23rd May, 2022 sighted by NewsRangers …
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 50 people were killed by militants on Sunday around the town of Rann in Nigeria’s Borno state, in the country’s northeastern tip near the border with Cameroon, witnesses told Reuters by phone on Monday. Since 2009, Nigeria’s northeast and Borno state in particular have been the centre of an insurgency…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kyiv court Monday ruled that a 21-year-old Russian soldier who killed a civilian was guilty of war crimes and handed him a life sentence, in the first verdict against Moscow’s forces since their invasion. “The court has found that (Vadim) Shishimarin is guilty and sentences him to life imprisonment,” judge Sergiy…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium in the Amule area of Ayobo, Lagos State, on Saturday, when members of the Nigeria Automobile Technicians Association, Ayobo unit, reportedly engaged in a fight over land. PUNCH Metro gathered that a former chairman of the unit allegedly assaulted two panel beaters, Matthew Idowu, and Sunday Olowolaiyemo, over the…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRAGERS)-The Arewa community in Lagos State has said it supports the state government’s ban on Okada, urging its members to comply with the directive. This was stated after a meeting of the group on Sunday where issues bordering on the Okada ban by the state government were discussed. In a communiqué issued…