LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former governor of Anambra, Peter Obi, says he will invest in the youth and create job opportunities, if elected president in the 2023 general elections. Obi said this on Monday in Kaduna while interacting with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) delegates and seeking their support in the coming 2023 presidential primary elections. He…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Hospital in Abuja on Monday dismissed claims that the corpse of popular gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu was singing ‘Ekwueme’ while in the mortuary. Dr Tayo Haastrup, the spokesman of National Hospital, said there was no proof that Osinachi’s body was singing in the morgue. Speaking with DAILY POST, Haastrup said…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A total number of thirty-four lawyers defended Bilyaminu Aliyu and Aminu Hukunci, the suspected killers of Deborah Samuel, in court today. The defense team was led by Prof. Mansur Ibrahim. Deborah Samuel, a 200-Level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was lynched by a mob on May 12…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In what appears to be the worst case in the Monday sit-at-home exercise in Enugu, Southeastern Nigeria, for the first time, police stations in the state observed full compliance with the inglorious sit-at-home order. The Monday sit-at-home, which began in the third quarter of 2021, was championed by the Indigenous People of…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s economic crimes agency said on Monday night it had arrested the country’s accountant general over charges of diverting public funds and money laundering to the tune of 80 billion naira ($193 million). Africa’s biggest economy and energy producer, Nigeria has struggled for decades with endemic corruption among senior public servants and…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After the killing of Deborah Samuel, a Christian, second-year student in the northern Nigeria city of Sokoto on Thursday for alleged blasphemy, fake news and disinformation have been widely shared on social media. A war of words erupted on Twitter and Facebook between some Muslims and Christians in the country, with each…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Around 40 people, many of them civilian volunteers with the army, have been killed in suspected jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso, local sources and security officials said on Monday. In the northern region of Sahel, around 25 people were killed in two assaults on Saturday, including 13 members of the VDP volunteers,…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen who abducted dozens of train passengers in northern Nigeria have released one of the hostages – a heavily pregnant woman. In a video message circulating on social media, the woman said the abductors told her she had been freed on “compassionate grounds”. She was among those kidnapped in March when armed…
