LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The paramount ruler and people of Akpa/Otobi community in Otukpo Local Government Area, LGA, one of the areas designated by the Federal Government to host the proposed (Ruga) settlements for herdsmen in Benue State yesterday led his subjects in a peaceful protest in Otukpo town rejecting the proposal. The people who came…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo,Chuks Ibegbu, has come out to ask the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, to shelve any ambition he is nursing for 2023 presidential election. begbu, who made the group’s position known, in an interview with…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite the harsh criticism of the planned establishment of Ruga settlements across the country, the Federal Government is set to commence the pilot phase of the project in Taraba, Adamawa, Plateau, Kaduna and seven other states, Saturday PUNCH’s investigations have confirmed. It was learnt in Abuja on Friday that the execution of…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NESRANGERS)-A Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Justice Valentine Ashi, who ordered security agencies to arrest and produce a former Petroleum Resources Minister, Diezani Alison Madueke within 72 hours, has died. The Nation learnt the Justice Ashi, who sits in Apo, died on Thursday in an…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Enugu State Government has placed a ban on the activities of the state chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria. The Permanent Secretary, General Administration, Office of the Secretary to the State Government, Josephine Onyia, disclosed this in a press statement made available to newsmen on Friday in Enugu….
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, on Friday, vowed to dismiss corps members caught smoking Indian hemp The D-G made this known during the Batch B Stream 2 corps members undergoing orientation at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Sagamu, Ogun State. “You can imagine how much your…
LAGOS JUNE29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian cult has been accused of promoting a life of prostitution and drugs in Italy’s dark and narrow alleys; from the north in Turin to the south in Palermo. The Washington Post writes that “Italian investigators say the Nigerian syndicate meets the definition of a mafia, rather than a criminal gang, because…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election and former Governor, Anambra State, Peter Obi, is among dignitaries expected at this year’s silver jubilee anniversary of the Students Union Government (SUG), Federal College of Education (Technical) Umunze, Anambra State. Also expected at the event holding on…
