LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS) A 21-year-old man, Onyeamachi Mmaju, has stabbed his landlord dead for allegedly cautioning him against bringing too many women to the compound. Mr. Nonso Umeadi Oyiboka was stabbed several times before he gave up the ghost. Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Haruna Mohammed, said: “On Wednesday, October 6,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two women, Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee are through to the final round of selection to become the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization, according to three anonymous sources that briefed Reuters on the development. With this development, the Geneva-based WTO will be…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A migrant worker was burned to death in the Libyan capital, U.N. and government officials said Wednesday, the latest in abuses that migrants and refuges face in the conflictstricken country. The Interior Ministry of the U.N.-supported government said three Libyans on Tuesday stormed a factory in the Tripoli neighborhood of Tajoura, where…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Onitsha sea port has become functional after it was commissioned yesterday, October 6. Videos and photos from the scene show containers being offloaded. Videos and photos from the scene show containers being offloaded. According to presidential aide, Tolu Ogunlesi: “The Plan is to move containers from Lagos & Onne Ports to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH ( NEWSRANGERS)- Unidentified gunmen have abducted the immediate past commissioner for higher education in Nasarawa State, Chief Clement Uhembe, in Lafia, the state capital. The gunmen stormed the residence of the former commissioner, who is also a senior lecturer in the department of political science at the Federal University, Lafia (FuLafia) at…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Frank Abumere Okiye and six other members of the Assembly, on Tuesday formally defected from the opposition All Progressive Congress, APC, to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on the floor of the house. Okiye who announced the defection at plenary,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate said on Wednesday that only those involved in budget preparation would accompany the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to the National Assembly on Thursday. The President is expected to present the 2021 national budget estimates to the joint session of the federal parliament on Thursday. The President of the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the Edo governorship elections quiet down after a winner had been announced by INEC, some governorship candidates who were part of the elections and lost, are leaving no stone unturned to bring to justice, an election they have tagged as flawed. While Nigerians and even the opposition APC have congratulated the winner, Obaseki,…
