By Amos Odeh. LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abducted Bayelsa State Commissioner for Trade and Investment, Mr. Federal Otokito, regained his freedom on Monday. His abductors released him five days after he was kidnapped from his Otuokpoti community residence in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state. The Bayelsa Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ben Nebolisa, and the…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government, through the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has suspended the planned petrol subsidy removal. Speaking during a meeting held at the National Assembly in Abuja on Monday, the Minister said the suspension is till further notice. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the Minister of…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Authorities in Cameroon said 17 people are dead after fire erupted at a popular nightclub in the capital of Yaounde, The Associated Press reported. In a statement on Sunday, officials said others were seriously injured in the fire at Livs Nightclub in Yaounde’s Bastos neighborhood and are being treated in an intensive…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Karim Benzema’s house was broken into on Sunday while the French striker was playing for Real Madrid against Elche, police sources told AFP on Monday. Benzema, who missed a penalty and then went off injured at the Santiago Bernabeu, returned to find his house “in a complete mess”, although it is not…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer eight people are reported to have been killed and dozens hurt in a crush outside an Africa Cup of Nations match in Cameroon. Video footage showed football fans struggling to get access to the Paul Biya stadium in a neighbourhood of the capital Yaounde. One child is among the dead,…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore was detained by mutinying soldiers, security officials said, with troops leading the apparent coup saying his government failed to support them during the country’s years-long conflict with armed groups. The news reports on Monday came a day after soldiers staged mutinies at several army barracks,…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dutch police say they have found a stowaway alive in the wheel section of a plane that landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport from South Africa. Flights from Johannesburg to Amsterdam take about 11 hours, with the cargo plane believed to have made one stop, in Nairobi, Kenya. It is very unusual for…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A businessman, identified simply as Uchechukwu, aka Alloy Omo Jesu, is on the run after allegedly torturing his 11-year-old apprentice to death in the Ogba area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the apprentice, Sunday, was accused of stealing N1,000 when Uchechukwu, who was bent on making him confess to the…
