LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Security, DSS, has invited Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, for questioning over remarks he made in a TV interview that allegedly portrayed the Nigerian military in a bad light. A report by the Voice of America, VOA, Hausa Service monitored on Friday, said Gumi was invited…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd, has been sentenced to 22 years and six months for second-degree murder, closing one chapter of a case that thrust the issue of race and American policing back into the global spotlight. The 45-year-old appeared in court on Friday, dressed in…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Recovered Loots and Assets of Government, yesterday, heard of how $300 million belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was “hidden in a Polaris Bank account and remained unattended to for years.” At the resumed public hearing of the panel in Abuja, the…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law a bill that limits a vice-president or deputy governor who completes the terms of their principals to seeking reelection only once more. This was one of three bills the president signed on Friday that make key changes to pre and post election laws in Nigeria….
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Emmanuel Lyambee Jime as the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers Council. The appointment is for a renewable four-year tenure. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu made the announcement in a statement Thursday night. Jime, who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law, is expected to use…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In July 2009, reports emerged that security forces had shot dead Abubakar Shekau, the brutal leader of the Nigeria-based terrorist organization Boko Haram. In the summer of 2013, an intelligence assessment claimed a raid in the Sambisa Forest resulted in Shekau’s death. In 2014, the Cameroonian military released photos intended to prove…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension at Tunga Maje village, near Zuba, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), when gunmen stormed a hotel and abducted about six guests and the owner of the hotel. The guests, Hon. Friday Sani Makama, Prince Frederick Adejoh and others yet to be identified, were taken away in a commando-style…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pregnant woman and two other men have been confirmed dead in a multiple accidents that happened around the Danco axis on the Lagos-Ibadan Highway. The spokesperson of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Mr. Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta. Akinbiyi explained…
