LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the release of $1 billion for the procurement of equipment to arm the security agencies in the country more in the fight against insurgency. The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, made this known on Wednesday shortly after a security meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. It…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The premises of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos was on Tuesday filled to the brim with jubilant crowd who thronged the airport to welcome the publisher of Saharareporters, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, as he arrived Nigeria to commence campaign for his 2019 presidential ambition. Although, Mr. Sowore has not officially declare his intention…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons are feared to have died in the early hours of Wednesday in Lagos when an electric pole fell on a moving commercial bus in the Ilasa area of the State. The development was confirmed by police authorities in the area. According to available information, emergency teams of the Lagos State…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The weekly Federal Executive Council meeting has been cancelled. In its place, a security meeting has been scheduled for midday by the Presidency. The FEC, usually chaired by the President or Vice President, has cabinet ministers and other senior government officials such as the Head of Service, National Security Adviser and the…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Another Senator, Bukar Mustapha, is dead. His death comes shortly after that of Senator Ali Wakili from Bauchi State. Mustapha is the representative of Katsina North Senatorial District, the area from where President Muhammadu Buhari hails. He came to the Senate from Daura Zone on the platform of the All Progressives Congress….
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Junior Secondary School (JSS) 2, student, Atoo Aondoana, has been held by the Police in Benue State for his alleged involvement in armed robbery along Makurdi-Alaide highway of the state. Aondoana alongside his accomplice, an elderly cleaner who works with the Nigeria Airforce in Makurdi, Peter Aghande, who is being held…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Street sweepers in Benin yesterday staged a protest demanding the payment of their outstanding salaries running into six months. The protesters who matched to the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Benin, said they were employed by the government which had not paid in the past six months. One…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected armed robbers attacked the New Ona Iwa Mimo Onimajemu Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Angwan Kwaso, Tunga-Maje community in Zuba, FCT and carted away money and phones of members. The Leader of the Church, Prophet Oladejo John, told newsmen that the culprits carted away money and phones and created fears in the…