LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Sunday 3rd April 2022, a video emerged on social media where a patrol vessel with the inscription NIMASA-Barugu on it and belonging to Messers Global West Specialist Vessels Limited sank in Lagos. The Boat was one of the Vessels owned by GWSVL and deployed for patrol during the implementation of a…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As its mandate ends Tuesday, the 37-person zoning committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has flung open its presidential ticket to all aspirants. The decision came after a meeting on Tuesday at the Benue State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja. According to a source who pleaded anonymity, the committee threw open the ticket…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Inland Revenue Service has named Shell as a “leading tax compliant organisation in Nigeria for 2021.” At an award ceremony in Abuja last week as part of the second annual National Tax Dialogue, Shell companies in Nigeria also won the award for ‘remarkable performance in the remittance of various taxes’…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Chief Imam of the Apo Legislative Quarters Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Khalid, has been appointed to lead another Juma’at mosque in Abuja. This is coming barely 24 hours after the Imam was sacked by the Apo mosque steering committee over a sermon that criticised the government’s failure to stop insecurity in the…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian atheist has been sentenced to 24 years in prison by a high court in the northern state of Kano after being convicted of blaspheming Islam. Mubarak Bala, the 37-year-old president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, pleaded guilty to all 18 charges and asked for leniency. He has been in…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed men have kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun in northern Burkina Faso, the bishop of the local diocese said on Tuesday. The bishop did not know the identity of the kidnappers. Militant groups, some with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State, have taken over large swathes of territory in Burkina Faso…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Justice Minister Abubakar Malami has cautioned a Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja against granting bail to suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari in his ongoing extradition case. Malami, in a counter-affidavit to the bail application by Kyari., said the embattled officer could abscond…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Arthur O Urso, from Brazil, hit headlines when he discussed his controversial marriage to nine women. A man who currently has nine wives has revealed his intention to marry two more wives, making it 11. The man it was gathered married nine wives at once to celebrate free love. According to him,…
