http://ift.tt/2hZaEK3 LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former vice president allegedly met former president Goodluck Jonathan to consider offers made to him by a section of the leadership of the opposition party to return. There are reports that some PDP chieftains are making efforts to bring Atiku back to the party’s fold but that…

http://ift.tt/2wKbAol Edo indigenes protesting against Gwandu at Abuja   LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Indigenes of Edo State under an umbrella group called Concerned Citizens of Edo State, have demanded that the State’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Haliru Gwandu, should immediately comply with his redeployment by the Police Service Commission (PSC), noting that his continued stay and…

http://ift.tt/2yc2WSk LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Femi Falana, SAN, a human rights lawyer, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to relinquish his position as petroleum minister. Buhari has held on to the position of petroleum minister since he named Ibe Kachikwu as the minister of state for Petroleum Resources. Falana made the call following some allegations from Kachikwu…

http://ift.tt/2yTxmGR Ok and Babachir LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Itse Sagay, a professor of law and chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption, is unhappy that the President Muahammdu Buhari has been too slow to act on the report which indicted two senior government officials of corruption. “On the specific issue of the suspended secretary to the Federal…

http://ift.tt/2hZww86 LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Monday responded to content of the leaked memo written by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, to President Muhammadu Buhari, dismissing most of his allegations as false. In a detailed statement signed by NNPC’s Group General Manager in charge of Group…

http://ift.tt/2yUqfxx IGP Idris LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)– Gunmen invaded Slaughter Market in Mgbuoshimini community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, in the wee hours of Monday killing 10 people including a couple. The traders had slept over at the market so as to rise up early enough for Monday’s activity when the gunmen…

http://ift.tt/2g69ZWJ Victor Malu LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Victor Malu, has died at a Cairo, Egypt hospital where he had travelled to about two weeks ago for medical check-up. Daily Sun reports that he died in the early hours of Monday at the age of 70, quoting a family…

http://ift.tt/2wEZCfy LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Properties worth millions of naira were destroyed by flood on Saturday at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Headquarters in Edo State. INEC officials said the flood followed a heavy rain which lasted for about two hours in Benin City, leading to the collapse of a fence between their premises and…