LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Report has emerged that journalists were barred from a closed meeting between President Muhammdu Buhari and Igbo leaders. The meeting, which journalists were not allowed to attend, is taking place at the newly commissioned Ultra modern executive chambers at the Imo Government House, Owerri. In attendance were the Ebonyi state Governor, David…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was confusion in Ezinihitte Mbaise Council Area of Enugu State when Mr. Louis Onwumere, an 80-year-old grand-father, poured petrol on his family house before allegedly striking a match and burning himself to death. Daily Trust gathered that the grandpa, described by one villager as a “strange man” retired many years ago…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Germany’s 2014 World Cup winner Jerome Boateng was on Thursday fined 1.8 million euros ($2 million) by a court in Munich after being found guilty of assaulting his former partner three years ago. The huge fine handed down by Munich regional court comes after Boateng was convicted of wilful bodily harm and…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The authorities in Mali have made an office available to a president ousted in May, in a gesture to a key figure in the country’s post-coup political turmoil. A government decree seen by AFP late on Wednesday said former president Bah Ndaw would be given a chief of staff, four advisers and…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian troops have seized 14 tonnes of fertiliser that the insurgent Islamist group Boko Haram had planned to turn into roadside bombs, the army said on Thursday. Boko Haram has killed hundreds of people in bombings during its 12-year war against the armed forces in northeast Nigeria, a conflict that has spilled…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) on Wednesday 8th September, 2021 gave details of how loads of Captagon, a brand of Amphetamine meant for insurgents’ camps in Nigeria were intercepted by operatives of the Agency at the Apapa port in Lagos….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday said it did not need the approval of the Nigerian Communications Commission to transmit election results electronically. This was as the National Assembly told the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, to seek proper legal advice instead of misinforming Nigerians on the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Assistant Director of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Mr Christopher Orji, has reportedly committed suicide in Abuja. Orji’s lifeless body was reportedly found dangling with a rope tied to a ceiling fan at his residence at Federal Housing Authority Estate, Lugbe, Abuja, at about 4pm on August 30. Sources within…
