LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed at least 50 people during two attacks on a village in north-central Nigeria, authorities said Thursday. Ruben Bako, chairman of the Otukpo local government where the massacre happened, said that gunmen killed 47 people on Wednesday in Umogidi village in Benue state. A day earlier, three other people had…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, has said that the indictment of former American President, Donald Trump, may be good for democracy. On Thursday, Professor Akinyemi sat with Arise News for an interview, where he shared his opinion that the indictment of President Trump may be good for democracy…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the kidnapped wives of the Ogboni Aborigines leader abducted has regained freedom. She explained that her late husband appeared to her in the forest to rescue her. Kidnappers had early hours on Monday raided the Imesi-Ile residents of Oba Ogboni Agbaye, Abdullahi Olakisan while he was away in Osogbo, abducting…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is unrest along the Apapa-Oshodi expressway following the alleged killing of a policeman by some commercial motorcyclists popularly known as okada riders. At least three guns belonging to the police were allegedly hijacked. Daily Trust reports that the incident happened around Cele Bus Stop and has created panic in the area….
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has pleaded leniency for former Deputy Senate Ike Ekweremadu who was found guilty of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice with a doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has warned that those pushing for subsidy removal in Nigeria are out to set the country on fire. The warning came against the backdrop of an announcement that the outgoing government of President Muhammadu Buhari had left the decision of petrol subsidy removal to the incoming government….
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Port Harcourt-bound Aero Contractors aircraft, on Wednesday morning, developed fault mid-air and had to return to Abuja for emergency landing. A passenger on the plane exclusively told LEADERSHIP that the aircraft took off at about 8:40am but few minutes into the flight, the pilot announced he had to return back to…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) is in trouble after allegedly collecting princely sums as bribes from an out-going governor. The said REC, it was learnt, was taking orders from the governor contrary to his oath of office. The governor attempted to smuggle in the ballot papers he printed for the March 18 governorship…