LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State government has concluded plans to build tank farms for petroleum products, the State Commissioner for Mineral Resources, Elder Markson Fefegha, has said. The tank farms would serve as reservoir to cushion the adverse effects arising from scarcity of petroleum products on people in the state. The Commissioner stated this on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Director General of Nigeria Law School, Onadeko bows out of office for Prof Isa Chiroma to takes over the realm of the school. President AB Mahmoud SAN who is the Ag Chairman Council of Legal Education chaired the handover ceremony. The President identified that the standard of our legal education is too…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Thursday night struck in Ngutsen village, Wurojam Ward, Gasol Local Government Area of Taraba State, killing at least four persons. The strike by the gunmen came just a few hours after the Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, raised the alarm that there are plans to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Tinubu, former governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, and Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, have chided former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his recent statement where he advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019. Tinubu, who said Obasanjo…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Benue State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, has said that seven persons were killed by irate youths in Gboko area of Benue State. Owoseni disclosed that the victims of the attack were travelling either to Okene or Taraba when the hoodlums attacked, killed and burnt them to ashes. “We got information around…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja Federal High Court has validated the rejection of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes, Ibrahim Magu, by the Senate. The Senate had rejected the confirmation of Magu as chairman of Anti-graft agency due to security reports from the Department of State Services. The Senate spokesman, Senator Abdulahi…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodlck Jonathan, Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson and the top Ijaw leaders called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the APC to be sincere with the implementation of the recommendations of the party’s committee led by Governor Ahmad Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State. They made the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSANGERS)-Over N3 billion has been spent by Bayelsa State as counterpart fund in the Education sector in the last six years, according to the State Commissioner for Education, Jonathan Obuebite. The gesture, he stated, was aimed at attracting Federal Government’s support and presence for the state. Obuebite stated this on Thursday in…