LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday sentenced a former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to 25 years in prison for crimes including rape, sexual enslavement, child abduction, torture and murder. Dominic Ongwen, who was taken into ICC custody in 2015, was convicted…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bloody, hourslong gunbattle in a Rio de Janeiro slum echoed into Friday, with authorities saying the police mission killed two dozen criminals while residents and activists claimed human rights abuses. It was just after sunrise Thursday when dozens of officers from Rio de Janeiro state’s civil police stormed Jacarezinho, a favela…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the recommendation of the Ministry of Transportation under Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi for the setting up of an Administrative Panel of Inquiry to investigate the Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA. A statement issued by the President’s media aide stated the Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two persons were feared killed while one other person was injured on Thursday after some gunmen attacked a bank’s bullion van in Elemoso village along Akure-Ondo highway in Ondo East Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was gathered that the armed robbers intercepted the bullion van which was conveying cash from…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major shakeup Thursday evening rocked the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) with the immediate suspension of Hadiza Bala Usman as the agency’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. President Muhammadu Buhari instantly approved Mohammed Koko to step into the shoes left by the daughter of the Late Dr. Bala Usman, the famous…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite assurances by the police authorities that the Abuja is safe, private schools in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, yesterday, hurriedly shut down their activities over fear of possible attack by kidnappers. LEADERSHIP learnt that some schools hurriedly sent their students home when news got to them over 200…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension in Gengere, mile 12 in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State on Wednesday following a fight between some hoodlums in the area. In a video posted by a Nigerian comedian and movie star, Ayodeji Richard Makun popularly known as A.Y. on his verified Facebook page, residents were seen…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Examinations Council on Thursday said 26,277 out of the 39,503 candidates who sat for its 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination for external candidates obtained five credits and above including in English Language and Mathematics. The board’s Registrar, Prof Godswill Obioma, disclosed this at the council headquarters in Minna, Niger State,…
