LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ihebuzor Chris, a self-confessed hacker who bragged on social media that he cyberstalked Access Bank and extracted over 2,000 data information of its customers, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The EFCC said in a statement that the hacker was recently arrested in Benin, the Edo state…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Road Safety Corps has confirmed the killing of two of its operatives and abduction of 10 by gunmen who attacked their buses in the early hours of Monday. The Corps Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem, confirmed the development in a statement. The operatives were said to be…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS) — Just before the start of crop planting in May, Abdullahi Hassan Wagini visited a neighbor’s farm in northern Nigeria to discuss how to prepare the fields. What happened next led him to abandon his livelihood of 25 years. As the two men were chatting, bandits on motorcycles opened fire on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria, ABCON has said that the major challenge facing the country’s foreign exchange market is speculation. Speaking in a exclusive interview, ABCON President, Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe said if not for the greed of few Nigerians who mop and keep the dollars thereby causing scarcity,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Udawa farming community in Kaduna state was thrown into fear as bandits kidnapped 16 farmers, including children, on bush paths to the farm, Vanguard newspaper reported Sunday. Uduwa village is located along the Birnin Gwari highway in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. “They were on their way to the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Israel will enter a three-week nationwide lockdown starting on Friday to contain the spread of the coronavirus after a second- wave surge of new cases, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. During the lockdown, which comes during the Jewish high-holiday season, Israelis will have to stay within 500 metres of their…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 500 persons have signed a petition to force the title of senior advocate of Nigeria removed from the Attorney General of the Federation Abubakar Malami. Izu Aniagu began the petition on Change.org, predicating his petition on the recent unilateral amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Strong disagreements over approaches to governance and records took centre stage during the governorship debate between the governorship candidates of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday. Viewers who tuned in for the two-hour debate between Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the APC and Governor Godwin Obaseki of the PDP…
