LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pirates who seized 15 sailors when they stormed a Turkish-crewed container ship in the Gulf of Guinea two days ago have not yet made contact with authorities, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Monday. An Azeri sailor was killed when armed attackers boarded the vessel, which was headed to Cape Town from Lagos,…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Katsina State Police Command has arrested an arm and ammunition dealer, Haruna Yusuf who confessed to have sold over 10,000 arms and ammunitions to bandits in the forest. In a press statement made available to NewsRangers, Katsina State Police Commissioner, CP Sanusi Buba disclosed that Haruna Yusuf claimed to get his supply…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa is set to join West Brom on a short-term contract till the end of the season. The former Leicester City forward is among options being considered by Sam Allardyce, with Crystal Palace’s Christian Benteke and Mbaye Diagne of Galatasaray also named, according to Daily Mail. West Brom…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will soon adopt electronic border (e-border) monitoring and surveillance for its seaports, international airports and land borders, the Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has said. Babandede said the e-border control system will checkmate trans-border criminals, banditry, border crimes and related offences. The NIS boss explained that the technology…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lauretta Onochie, Senior Special Assistant on Social Media to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said every tribe in the country has bad eggs. She also claimed that many critics of the Buhari regime were driven by hate and bitterness and were, therefore, wont to accuse Fulani herdsmen of every…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has announced the reconstitution of the Board of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), with the reinstatement of Emmanuel Olajide Adesoye from the South West as chairman. Adesoye, who is former NPA board chairman, replaces Akinwunmi Recketts, a former Commissioner for Information in Cross River State under former Governor Liyel Imoke and an ally…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has decried what he described as a painful level of rot and decay in Nigeria’s political system, saying that a new Nigeria will emerge if honest men can join Nigeria’s political space with the intention…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he has tested positive for Covid-19. The 67-year-old said on Twitter that his symptoms were mild and that he was “optimistic” following the diagnosis. The development comes as Mexico grapples with an upsurge in infections, with deaths nearing 150,000. Mr López Obrador says he…
