LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jihadists linked to the so-called Islamic State group have taken hundreds of hostages in a town in northeast Nigeria, locals and militia sources said Wednesday. Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) “terrorists” late Tuesday overran Kukawa in the Lake Chad region, seizing people who had just returned to their homes after spending…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has described as unfair, the recent clampdown on Nigerian businesses in Ghana by the Ghanaian authorities. He spoke through a press statement made available to the media. Obi, who said such actions negated the true spirit…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief Executive Officer of Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Limited and a Nigerian oil mogul, Abdulrahman Bashir, has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment in the United Kingdom, a report by Premium Times said. According to reports, in February, Justice Butcher of England and Wales High Court ruled that Bashir be imprisoned for…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A powerful group of prominent leaders in the south of Nigeria, under the aegis of The Southern Eminent Leaders of Thought, otherwise known as Project Nigeria Movement, has purportedly penciled down five names they consider fit to be flagbearers of the Igbo-speaking southern part of the country in the race to 2023…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH )NEWSRANGERS)-Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has revealed how the late former American Ambassador in Nigeria, Amb. Walter Carrington, leaked the information of his pending arrest by late head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha (retd.), in 1995 to him. Obasanjo said he was offered political asylum in the United States of America during…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria has urged Kano state government to execute the court judgement that found Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a singer, guilty of blasphemy, despite public outcry. According to NAN, in a statement by Nafi’u Baba-Ahmad, its secretary-general, in Kaduna on Tuesday, the council said executing the judgement will serve…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The state Commissioner for social development and women affairs, Hajia Fatima Kabir-Buba, disclosed while addressing a news conference in Lokoja. She said that the destitute were evacuated from different parts of Lokoja, the state capital and returned to Katsina, Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi and Zamfara States where they originally came from. According to…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected gunmen have abducted two sons of a former Commissioner in Zamfara, (North West Nigeria), Alhaji Bello Dankande, and two others, including an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence (NSCDC). The Spokesman of the State’s Police Command, SP Muhammad Shehu, told newsmen in Gusau, the State’s capital that the gunmen…
