LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has come under fire for stacking his new cabinet with ageing party loyalists despite hopes he might opt for more technocrats in his final term. The senate this week approved the list of 43 ministers after the former military ruler finally settled on their names some two months…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Military High Command on Thursday decried what it described as a misinformed publication and a figment of the imagination of Wall Street Journal alleging that secret burial sites where troops killed by Boko Haram are buried silently exist, noting that the writer of the publication lacks knowledge of military valued ethos,…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWRANGERS)-Members of the proscribed Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, also known as Shiites, have said they are ready to die protesting the detention of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky by the government. This is even as they disowned the statement by their spokesman, Ibrahim Musa, announcing the suspension of their protests following…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has said that cattle rustlers and armed bandits have been granted amnesty by the Northwest governors as part of measures to restore peace in the zone. Mr Masari made the disclosure in a communique read at the end of a one-day security and reconciliation meeting with…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa-based lawyer, Barr. Timila Jenkins Okponipere has raised an alarm over imminent outbreak of cholera and other waterborne diseases in some Bayelsa communities. Okponipere made his position known following the pollution of the entire coastline of Brass and surrounding environment with the blood of a dead decomposing Whale which has washed ashore….
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The number of air travellers has increased recently over insecurity in many parts of the country, Daily Trust can report. This has also resulted in marginal hike in air fares, random checks by our correspondent have shown. The routes where passengers’ turnout has recorded influx in recent times are the South East…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria’s vice president Atiku Abubakar Thursday called for the investigation of the alleged secret burial of over 1,000 troops of the Nigerian Army. “I cannot fathom that in the space of a year, 1000 of these great patriots were killed and buried secretly without their families being told. I hesitate to…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Activities were brought to a halt Thursday morning as street boys popularly known as ‘area boys’ clashed with truck drivers at Coconut bus stop, Olodi-Apapa, Lagos. No fewer than four people were reported to have sustained injuries as a result of the fracas which an eye witness said was occurred as a result…
