LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Asale of Isale kingdom, Oja-Odan, in the Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba Ganiyu Adegbola, has expressed fears of possible reprisal by the residents following the alleged killings by men of the Nigeria Customs Service. The monarch said this while reacting to the recent killing of a 50-year-old…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday clashed over the controversial National Water Resources Bill and the debate on the bill turned into a shouting match. Some members of the House, mostly from the southern part of the country and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, raised various legal and procedural issues…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is panic in Inen Ikot Esse village in OrukAnam local government area of Akwa Ibom, as gunmen suspected to be cultists invaded a Pentecostal church and shot one of the church elders identified Elder Friday Ufenang. It was gathered that the suspected cultists numbering over 10 had stormed the church premises…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prominent Niger Delta Activist , Tamunokuro George has announced the death of his father, Captain Ogenbo Obriki, who died on Monday 28th September, 2020. Tamuno, a die-hard loyalist of Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Ministry, in a statement said, Captain Ogenbo Obriki, a retired Army, passed on at the age…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Muniru Olagunju of the Oyo State High Court has sentenced Oreoluwa Adesakin, an ex-staff of a tier-one bank, to cumulative 98 years in prison for fraud. Adesakin, female, was found to have committed financial fraud against her employers to the tune of N49,320,652.32 and additional $368,203 belonging to the bank which…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Didier Drogba has been selected to receive the 2020 UEFA President’s Award. The former Chelsea and Ivory Coast striker was hailed as a “pioneer” by UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin. Drogba fired Chelsea’s winning penalty in the 2012 Champions League final shoot-out, steering the Blues to four Premier League titles and as many…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 32-year-old Wisconsin school staffer who sexually abused a 16-year-old student — and told police she was going through “extensive personal issues” in her life at the time — has pleaded guilty. On Monday, former Green Bay school staffer Courtney Roznowski was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading no contest…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This Nov. 6 will mark 38 years president Paul Biya has clung on to power in Cameroon—making him Africa’s second longest-serving head of state, after his peer Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea. Biya, 87, became president in 1982, long before the majority of the central African country’s 25 million people were born….
