LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Osun on Thursday arraigned 28 persons before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court in Osun for their alleged involvement in burning down a police station in Iwo, Osun. The police arraigned Raheem Adewale, 26, Lateef Oluwafemi, 28, Ishola Jimoh,19, Kazeem Rafiu,31, Kabiru Mudashiru, 35, Ajayi Michael, 18, Wasiu Suleiman, 40,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium in Abuja on Thursday as officers of the Nigeria police force and some supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) clashed at the PDP party headquarters. According to reports, the protesters besieged the area as former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar submitted his presidential nomination form. The clash resulted in the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has ordered the dismissal of the three policemen who raided elder statesman, Cheif Edwin Clark’s Asokoro, Abuja residence on Tuesday. The Force spokesman, Jimoh Moshood in a statement explained that the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has approved the dismissal of Insprs. Godwin Musa, Sada…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, says Nigeria will export marijuana if he gets elected as president of the country. He said people are making billions from the plant while Nigeria lags behind. The presidential aspirant for the 2019 election said this while speaking at an event organised by Centre for…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH(NEWSRANGERS)-A pro- Niger Delta group, the Niger Delta Oil Communities Agenda, NIDOCA, has advised persons being sponsored to smear the image and reputation of Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, over non existing case of corruption to desist forthwith. The NIDOCA, in a statement issued by Comrade Emmanuel Akpovoka, Secretary…
By Amos Odeh The Bayelsa State Government has taken its safe motherhood campaign to churches with a call on Christian Leaders in the state to engage their members on the benefits of the initiative. At a meeting with the Christian Leaders in Yenagoa, the Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah (rtd) said the government…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has denied claims by his spokesman, Sule Ya’u, that he has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress (APC). It will be recall that Ya’u, on Monday, told BBC Hausa that his boss dumped the PDP due to the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Government has confirmed that nine people have been killed and five others injured following recent flood disaster in nine Local Government Areas of the state. The Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, Alhaji Ali Bashir, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Kano, on…