LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension at Idumota Area of Lagos Island, Lagos, yesterday, following the assassination of the personal assistant to a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Kunle Azeez aka Kunle Poly. Our source learnt that the deceased identified simply as Ganiu (aka Piero), Kunle Poly and some security…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-THE All Progressives Congress ( APC) said it needed time to study the statement, saying it will only respond to the former President’s letter after carefully studying it. The Nation gathered that the content of the letter was discussed at a National Working Committee of the party which was ongoing at the…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officers of the Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency [NDLEA] have discovered a large quantity of harvested dried weeds of cannabis sativa in Ugbubezi forest, Owan West Local Government Area of the State. The drug exhibits were evacuated from the warehouse by a team of over seventy officers…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yet to be identified gunmen on Tuesday attacked a Marine Police Division in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa killing two policemen on guard duties. A Police Source at the Division who confirmed the development said that the pirates also made away with two units of 200 Horsepower gunboats….
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yesterday’s visit of All Progressive Comgress Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akamde has no connection with the letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu. In Obasanjo’s letter, the former President had advised Buhari not contest the 2019 President election sighting health and inability to perform as…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ebonyi state House of Assembly on Tuesday suspended the member representing Afikpo North East constituency in the Assembly, Mrs Maria Ude Nwachi aka Afikpo Chic, for alleged gross misconduct. Mrs. Nwachi was accused of allegedly posing as public photographer. The motion for he suspension was moved by the Leader of the House,…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reactions have continued to trail the special statement issued by former President Olusegun Obasanjo advising President Buhari to heed the clarion call and bow out in 2019. In the special statement trending on social media, Obasanjo cited President Buhari’s impaired health, age, nepotism and the poor handling of the country’s economy as…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)Former Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election next year, saying he has failed in his management of Africa’s most populous country. “I only appeal to brother Buhari to consider a deserved rest at this point in time,” Obasanjo said on Tuesday in an emailed statement. “President…