LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – A military court in Burkina Faso on Monday convicted and jailed two generals on charges of masterminding a coup in the fragile Sahel state in 2015. General Gilbert Diendere was convicted on charges of murder and harming state security and handed a 20-year prison term, while General Djibrill Bassole, accused of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER (NEWSRANGERS)– Cameroon’s restive anglophone regions were in shutdown on Monday as schools and shops closed in protest at the sentencing of charismatic separatist leader Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe to life in prison. Troops were seen patrolling the streets in flashpoint areas and in Bamenda, the capital of the anglophone Northwest Region, residents reported…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)– Nigeria’s multiple security problems have created a crisis that requires urgent attention and could lead to instability in other African countries if it is not addressed, a United Nations rapporteur said on Monday. Security forces in Africa’s most populous country are trying to tackle a decade-long Islamist insurgency in the northeast,…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS No fewer than 6,721 concerned Nigerians as well as socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and Enough is Enough (EiE) have sued the National Assembly to stop it from spending N5.5billion to buy luxury cars for principal officials. The case which has been filed at the Federal High Court in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigerian Army authorities have arrested an officer and nine soldiers in connection with the killing of five officers of the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT), on August 6, in Taraba State Daily Sun, can authoritatively report. This is just as our correspondent gathered that the arrested officers risk death sentence…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- There were reports of explosions at the residences of two members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. It was gathered that some suspected thugs working for one of the governorship aspirants outside the PDP Restoration Team threw dynamites into the houses of Oforji Oboku, a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The Supreme Court will today (Monday) commence hearing in the suit seeking the disqualification of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential polls over an alleged act of perjury. The suit filed by a legal practitioner and two others, Thisday learnt is one of the appeals slated for Monday, September 2,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The annual Oro cultural festival held in Ikorodu area of Lagos has turned bloody as suspected members of Aiye and Eiye cult gang engaged themselves in a clash. Five members of the secret cult groups died during the fight while several others sustained bullet and machete wounds. The gangs were said…
