LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Thursday said the volume of crude oil discovered in Benue Trough was in commercial quantity. It said Nigerian geologists were spearheading efforts in the discovery of the commodity in the trough. The corporation’s Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This may not the best of times for Police officers at Area D Command Headquarters in Mushin, Lagos, after a one-man squad armed robber stormed the Command, robbed some officers of huge sums of money kept inside safe and escaped. Some officers came to work in the morning, discovered that their locked…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump’s attempts to cling to power appeared more tenuous than ever on Wednesday as election officials in Georgia said a soon-to-be-completed recount was not likely to change President-elect Joe Biden’s victory there. Georgia is one of several states where Trump’s campaign is contesting election returns, so far without success. Election…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump would be wiser to acknowledge losing the U.S. presidential election and quit, Czech President Milos Zeman, an early Trump supporter, said on Thursday. Zeman, one of the few European politicians who backed Trump before his 2016 election victory but who made no such endorsement this year, told news website www.parlamentnilisty.cz…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has condoled with the Catholic Bishop of Awgu Diocese, Most Rev J. I. Okoye, over the road accident that painfully claimed the lives of some staff and students of Presentation Nursery and Primary School, Awgu recently….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cable News Network, CNN has reacted to the threat of sanctions from the Federal Government over its investigative report on the October 20 shooting incident at the Lekki tollgate. The international media house carried out an investigation into the incident and shared its findings on Wednesday, November 18. Read here. At a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSPAPERS)-A security aide to the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has allegedly shot a newspapers vendor in the head. The incident, which occurred at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, around 3 pm on Thursday, caused panic in the area. The victim identified as Ifeanyi Okereke was subsequently rushed to the National Hospital…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers have abducted five brothers in Pegi community in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). A resident who preferred anonymity gave the names of the kidnapped brothers as Jubril Abdullateef ,22; Sherifat Abdullateef, 20; Muyidat Abdullateef, 13; Nura Abdullateef, 18; and Nahimat Abdullatee, 9. He said they were kidnapped…
