LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has sympathised with Ochanga and Upper Iweka traders and all those affected by the recent inferno that gutted their shops. Obi, who led other PDP members in both the National Assembly and State House of Assembly on a visit…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Edo State Command, Mr Anthony Oko, also confirmed the accident in which seven people lost their live and scores were injured but had “nothing” to do with Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki’s convoy. It was reported that seven persons – five adults and two children…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is calling for a total boycott of all Nigerian products imported to Ghana. The move, the traders union believes, will force the Nigerian government to open up its land borders for foreign goods. Nigeria partially shut its borders since August. According to Ghanaweb, Greater Accra…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has faulted some state governments and communities for allegedly frustrating projects of the Federal Government in the country. In a statement on Saturday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu, it warned against creating unnecessary impediments in the allocation of land or…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate has summoned Enyia Akwagaga, acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, to appear before it on Tuesday over the award of N65 billion contracts. Matthew Urhoghide, Chairman Senate Committee on Public Accounts, summoned Akwagaga over his absence at the hearing of the committee on the contract. The contracts…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three girls suspected to be prostitutes working in a pub in Nnewi, Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State, on Friday lost their lives in an inferno that ravaged the property. The pub, Padded Joint, located at Ezekwuabo Otolo Nnewi, was said to have caught fire in the early hours of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President Ahmad Lawan (Yobe North) was said to have secured 26 job slots for his constituents, from the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Daily Trust exclusively gathered. This is just as the job scandal rocking the upper chamber gets messier with senators threatening showdown over the sharing formula of the employment slots…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man suspected to be an informant of rice smugglers has been killed allegedly by officials of the Nigeria Customs Service in Jigawa State. Tasiu Muhammad, 22, a resident of Babura Local Government Area, was shot dead at Unguwar Gawo, about five kilometres from Bubara town, the council headquarters. The police commissioner…
