LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ebonyi State Government has shut the Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB), in Abakaliki, over the bank’s inability to pay what is believed to be over N100 million accumulated tax. Task force team from the State Board of Internal Revenue Service stormed the bank in the early hours of July 5th and ordered its…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Contrary to reports, a senior official of the prison, who preferred not to be named, said the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, remains within the prison wall. The official did not categorically confirm whether Mr Kyari’s cell was among those destroyed by the attackers. “All I can tell you is that…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-About 300 inmates have been declared missing by the Nigeria government after an attack on Kuje Custodial Centre on Tuesday despite an early warning. The attack, according to witnesses, started around 10 p.m. and lasted for over an hour before the security operatives repelled the terrorists, who accessed the venue using explosives….
By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is no doubt any more that in Nigeria leadership corridor, once a direction is chosen, instead of examining process meticulously and set the right course; one that will allow us to overcome storm and reach safety before we can progress and achieve our goals, we obstinately persist with…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kuje Medium Security Prison and Kuje Maximum Security Prison in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja are under attack. However, operatives of the Department of State Services and Nigeria Police were battling the attackers as at press time. In the attack on Tuesday night, explosives, said to be bombs, were used by the…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A couple, Chukwudi Micheal and Bolani Micheal, have been inconsolable after losing four children to a fire that gutted their two-room apartment on Tapa Road, Oke-Oko, Isawo, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident occurred around 1pm on Sunday, June 26, as one of the children,…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Muhammad Barkindo, is dead. Barkindo died late Tuesday. The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, announced Barkindo’s death in a tweeted posted to his verified Twitter handle, @MKKyari, in the early hours of Wednesday. “We lost our esteemed…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected terrorists on Tuesday, near Dutsinma, Katsina State, ambushed the convoy of cars conveying the Presidency’s advance team of security guards, protocol and media officers, killing two policemen in the process. The Presidency officials were travelling to Daura ahead of the trip of the President, Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to his hometown for…
