LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some traditional rulers in the South-West have been accused of inviting herdsmen from foreign countries to settle in their domains. They allegedly harboured herdsmen from West African countries in the Oke Ogun area of Oyo State and other parts of Yorubaland. A former Director, Directorate of Military Intelligence, Col. Kunle Toogun (retd.),…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria forward Henry Onyekuru tied the knot with his spouse in a traditional wedding on Saturday. The 22-year-old was joined by international teammates including Oghenekaro Etebo, John Ogu, Chidozie Awaziem and Kenneth Omeruo in Benin to celebrate his marriage. A week ago, Onyekuru was a member of the Nigeria squad that finished…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWRANGERS)-Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome, has faulted the Friday’s order of the Federal High Court in Abuja proscribing the Islamic Movement in Nigeria popularly known as Shiites. Ozekhome in a statement sent to our correspondent said the court’s ruling which also declared the Shiite movement as a terrorist group was…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, also know as Shiites, has described the application by the ban on the activities of the sect as unconstitutional. The Federal Government had, on Friday, obtained an ex parte order from a Federal High Court in Abuja, banning the activities of the sect. Justice Nkeonye Maha,…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian veteran sports journalist and retired Director Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Akinloye Oyebanj, has died at the age of 62. His family confirmed to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Oyebanji, passed on at National Hospital, Abuja, on Saturday morning after protracted battle with heart failure. Mr Bukoye Oyebanji and Dr Steve…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Monrovia, Liberia received the country’s highest award and expressed his resolve to continue to strengthen cooperation within the West African sub region. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman, who confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja, said Buhari was honoured during the 172nd independence anniversary…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Nigerians living in London on Friday, July 26, stormed the Iranian embassy to protest the activities of the members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria across the Federal Capital Territory. The Nigerians under the aegis of Concerned Nigerians in the United Kingdom during the protest warned the Iranian embassy to stop…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bahrain executed on Saturday three men convicted in two separate cases, one involving the killing of a police officer and the other the killing of a mosque imam, the public prosecutor said in a statement. Rights groups identified two of the men as Shi’ite activists Ali al-Arab and Ahmed al-Malali, who were…
