LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Chuks Ibegbu, a chieftain of the Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to dialogue with IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Ibegbu said Buhari should engage Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), and other agitators in a roundtable discussion. Ibegbu said…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-US actor Joe Lara, best known for playing Tarzan, is presumed dead after a plane crash in Tennessee. The 58-year-old is among seven people believed killed when a light aircraft crashed into a lake near the town of Smyrna on Saturday. His dietician wife, Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded a weight-loss church,…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Enugu State Police Commissioner Mohammed Aliyu has ordered a full-scale manhunt of armed assailants who killed former Judge of Enugu State High Court, Justice Stanley Nnaji. A video posted on Twitter by The Nigerian Barrister @TheNigerianBar showed armed men dragging Nnaji out of his car at a deserted crossroad. A volley of…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed outrage and disgust over what he called “the heinous murder of Adamawa politician Ahmed Gulak in Owerri, Imo State by yet to be identified gunmen.” Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity) disclosed this in a statement Sunday. Reacting to the development…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress [APC)’s primaries were truncated in many parts of Lagos on Saturday by hoodlums and party officials allegedly favouring particular candidates ahead of the July 24 local government elections. Hundreds of aggrieved APC members on Saturday kept vigil at the party’s state secretariat in Lagos to ventilate their anger…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Imo State police claimed they have killed the suspected assassins of former PDP National Chairman, Ahmed Gulak. A press statement signed SP Bala Elkana, Police Public Relations Officer, For Commissioner of Police, Imo State sighted by NewsRangers, the police stated that, “On 30th May, 2021 following a distress received by the Command…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector General of Police,(IG) has been asked to investigate former Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke and the former Petroleum Minister, Dan Etete and Abubakar Aliyu over a string of forgery allegations linked to the OPL245 scandal. In a petition sent to the Inspector General of Police (IG), Human and…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have launched fresh raids on online drug traffickers in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, during which a young lady and her boyfriend as well as eight others were arrested and assorted drugs recovered from them. The first suspect, 28-year-old Ese Patrick who sells…
