LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Commercial activities were grounded for hours in parts of Anambra on Monday as the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra went underway in Abuja. Mostly affected were the commercial centres of Onitsha and Nnewi where major markets were shut. African Examiner reports that vehicular movements within…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will leave Abuja today for London to see his doctors and participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education 2021-2025. This was contained in a statement by the president’s media adviser, Femi Adesina, titled, ‘President Buhari attends global education summit in…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Uduak Akpan on Monday pleaded guilty to the murder of Iniubong Umoren, the Akwa Ibom woman who was lured out of her home with a fake job interview. He was arraigned before a State High Court judge in Uyo. Miss Umoren was raped and killed in April in the outskirts of Uyo…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Serving Overseer, Citadel Global Community Church, (formerly called The Latter Rain Assembly), Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday, dared an official of the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to come after him if the government was offended by his recent pronouncements, which he said had become unsettling…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-eight students of the Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, were released on Sunday after spending 20 days in bandits’ den. Those who regained their freedom were among the 121 students who were abducted when bandits invaded the school on July 5. The PUNCH gathered that the bandits released the students after collecting…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Witnesses to the shocking public kidnapping of Nigerian and British national Nnamdi Kanu—head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group—told The Daily Beast that the separatist leader was stepping out of his car at an airport when a group of heavily armed men forcefully seized him to arrange his transfer to…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With a title, “DISCLAIMER: DISREGARD DOCTORED VIDEO AIMED AT DENIGRATING THE NA”, the Nigerian army in a statement signed by Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, Director Army Public Relations, has denied reports that soldiers of the Nigerian army invaded and destroyed farmlands in Enugu, South East of Nigeria, stressing that the video footage…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The traditional ruler of Ochoro in Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State, Chief Dennis Okpe Ijoko, has been killed and many of his subjects are said to be missing, following an attack by suspected armed militia on Ochoro community. The attack reportedly took place in the evening of July 20, 2021….
