LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has compared Nigeria to a vehicle with a knocked engine, insisting that Nigerians should devote more of their energy towards fixing the engine than seeking or concentrating their energy on who becomes the driver. Obi made…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced investigation into the shady acquisition of shares of quoted Nigerian companies and properties running into billions of naira by a serving senior military officer, Major General Umaru Mohammed. Mohammed, who is currently the Managing Director of the Nigerian Army Properties Limited, had also…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, has fingered the watchman of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, where about 300 students were abducted last week, of being complicit in the incident. He also said repentant bandits held talks with their unrepentant counterparts and were able to secure the release of the schoolgirls. Matawalle spoke…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu is under fire over his comment on Wednesday that hoodlums who invaded his palace during the #EndSARS protest stole his $2 million and N17 million. Akiolu, who spoke at the Glover Hall Memorial Commissioning, Lagos on Wednesday, lamented the devastation inflicted on Lagos by the protesters, including…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Christian cleric, Bulus Yikura, who was kidnapped by Boko Haram, has been freed. Mr Yikura was freed Wednesday evening by the terror group, security sources told PREMIUM TIMES. Our reporter saw Mr Yikura on the outskirts of Maiduguri as he was being conveyed to the office of the State Security Service…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Contrary to expectation on the free flow of traffic following the commencement of Call-Up system for port operations, Oshodi-Apapa Expressway has been on a total lockdown as fuel tankers and containerized vehicles parked indiscriminately along the road. This happened as Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, vowed to publicly mention the names…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The strike action embarked upon by the cattle and foodstuff dealers under the aegis of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) has been suspended. The agreement to suspend the strike was reached when the leadership of the trade union met with Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A clergyman, Pastor Chris McDouglas Omosokpea, of Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, located at No.17/19 Mututiatu Kayode Street off Ayodele Street, Mafoluku area of Oshodi, Lagos, who is facing charge for rape of his member’s teen daughter, has secretly sold his church and fled to an unknown place. P.M.EXPRESS reports that Pastor Chris…
