LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Matthew Barango, a former PDP chieftain and a prominent politician in the South-South, has explained his reasons for supporting the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. Speaking on AIT News, outlined some of Obi’s contributions to the administration of his own “godfather”, Goodluck. Barango said, “People seem to have forgotten…
LAGOS OTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara has imposed a local lockdown and closed some markets and highways amid restrictions to contain renewed attacks by bandit militias after the breakdown of a peace deal, officials said. Northwest and central states are struggling to halt violence from criminal gangs who raid villages, loot and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force has smashed a gang of five suspected kidnappers allegedly terrorising the Mubi axis of Adamawa State. Operatives of the state police command rounded up members of the gang after the suspects allegedly carried out their last act of kidnapping a child and collecting N5 million ransom from the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government Government is considering unbundling the Nigerian Railway Corportion to make its services more efficient and effective. The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, made this disclosure yesterday in Abuja when members of the NRC Governing Board paid him a courtesy visit. According to him, the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, has stated that Maritime Workers are vital not only to the maritime industry but to Nigeria’s economy as a whole. The Minister who stated this yesterday when the President, Maritime Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MWUN), Comrade Adewale Adeyanju, led its Executive Council on a courtesy…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police operatives attached to Mararaba ‘A’ Division in Nasarawa State led by CSP Musa Babayola have arrested one Alice Mulak ‘F’ of Ungwan Gwari, Karu LGA for stabbing her boyfriend to death with a Knife. The Police in a statement signed by Nasarawa State Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), DSP Ramhan Nansel…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly every family here has twins or other multiple births, says local chief Jimoh Titiloye. For the past 12 years, the community has organized an annual festival to celebrate twins. This year’s event, held earlier this month, included more than 1,000 pairs of twins and drew participants from as far away as…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lecturers in Nigeria say they will go back to work on Monday after a strike that closed most of the country’s universities for eight months, leaving hundreds of thousands of students angry and frustrated. “That’s eight months wasted out of my life, and what did the strike achieve?” asked one student who…
