LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the recruitment of 6,000 additional policemen as part of fresh measures to address the nation’s security challenges including the farmers/herdsmen clashes across the country. The President made this known in a special interview session with Voice of America, Hausa service, in Washington, United States on Tuesday morning….
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A pair of explosions killed at least 24 worshippers at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, with many of the victims caught in the second blast while trying to flee, police said Tuesday. The attack in Mubi town came a day after President Muhammadu Buhari met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Group under the aegis of Workforce is celebrating the workers day. The group is a statement sad it is celebrating the unrelenting labour and sheer ingenuity of the workforce whose productivity is critical to economic growth. “To every worker who continues to give their best regardless of the limitations and challenges of…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has commended Nigerian workers as they celebrate workers’ day today. In a message made available to the press, the former Governor said that workers throughout the world deserved to be celebrated because from the labour of their hands the machinery of Government was…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-During a joint press conference Monday between President Trump and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari — the first African president Trump has hosted at the White House — a reporter asked about that crass epithet Trump reportedly used to describe African countries. In January, reports surfaced that Trump asked a room of lawmakers…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-17-year-old pupil of a secondary school in Rumuokoro community, in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, simply identified as Abibatu was reported to have committed suicide. Abibat who was impregnated by a yet-to-be identified person was said to have taken insecticide which led to her death. Abibatu, who was angrily…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A High Court sitting at Onitsha presided over by Hon. Justice MNO Okonkwo slammed Zenith Bank Plc the sum of 11Million Naira for negligence. The plaintiff Iwuchukwu Okeke through its counsel C.J. Okeke Esq. of (TRULAW CHAMBERS) commenced the action on 17th March 2017 claiming damages for defendant’s negligence and illegal detention…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Cross River State Governor, Prof Ben Ayade, Monday, authorised the payment of 2014 gratuity to retired civil servants in the state, even as he donated N50 million to the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) for the completion of the Labour House. The governor, who was accompanied by his…