LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Meanwhile, three persons were feared dead in Enugu on Thursday as operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) shot at a moving commercial bus. The incident occurred at Miliken Hill axis of old Enugu-Onitsha Road at about 11.30am. According to eyewitnesses, trouble started when the commercial bus passed in…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There was panic when over 200 youths in the early hours of Thursday burnt down a police station and a church in Bayan Dutse area of Narayi, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The rampaging youths were said to have burnt down the Celestial Church of God parish at Narayi following…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGRS)-Ahead of 2019 election, the Coalition for Nigeria Movement being promoted by former President Olusegun Obasanjo has registered no fewer than three million members. The former president revealed this on Thursday while delivering a lecture at the 14th annual lecture of the Women in Management, Business and Service (WimBiz), a non-governmental organisation,…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has halted temporarily, the withdrawal of policemen attached to Very Important Persons to enable the force to carry out an assessment of the current personnel deployment. He stated that the withdrawal would now take effect from April 20, 2018. Idris, in a statement on Thursday, in…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Social and economic activities between Kwara and Oyo states have been paralysed since Sunday following the invasion of Ilorin-Igbeti highway by gunmen. Several travellers have fallen victims of the hoodlums who allegedly kidnapped and collected huge ransom from their victims, Dailytrust reports. News of the invasion first emerged on Wednesday last week,…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-A Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar on Wednesday sentenced a retired worker of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Godwin Elewana, to death by hanging. Elewana was found guilty of the murder of the 22-year-old boyfriend of his daughter, Douglas Ojugbo. He killed Ojugbo on March 10, 2015 over suspicion that…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced Police Sergeant Jilla Lannubo to death by hanging for extra-judicial killing. The policeman was arraigned for the extrajudicial killing of one Oruyegha Grand in the Agudama area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, on May 13, 2017. Lannubo, a native of Bokos…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected cult members on Tuesday set ablaze the Oporoma Police Division in Southern Ijaw Local Governmemt Area of Bayelsa in desperation to free a detained member of their gang. It was gathered that the cult member who was on Police wanted list for various crimes including kidnapping, sea robbery, armed robbery and acts…