LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has returned to Sierra Leone to observe the country’s presidential run-off polls scheduled for Tuesday. Jonathan, who is leading the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa Election Observation Mission, arrived Freetown on Friday. Ikechukwu Eze, the spokesman to the former president, said Jonathan also led…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has said he was misquoted concerning the release of the last abducted schoolgirl in Dapchi, Leah Sharibu. Idris had on Saturday been quoted at the Military Command Headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno State as saying Sharibu was scheduled to be released on Saturday (yesterday). But a…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil rights organisation, the Save Lagos Group, has cautioned security operatives in Lagos State to show caution in the exercise of their duties to residents of the state, saying that they (security agents) must not be seen to be infringing on the rights of the people. This is coming just as…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, says he stands by his position to appear before the police only in Abuja, as he believes his safety cannot be guaranteed in Kogi State. He made the comments in a letter written by his lawyer on Saturday, in response to a summon by the…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Retired Lt. General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma has accused Nigerian Military of ethnic cleansing, just as he urged Nigerians to defend themselves from killers across the country instead of depending on the armed forces. Danjuma, a former chief of army staff from 1976-1979, said this yesterday in a live telecast programme of the…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Victor Oluwadamilare, Special Assistant Media to Mr. Adebayo Shittu, Minister of Communications, has accused his boss of greed and wickedness. Mr. Oluwadamilare made the allegations in a letter to the minister. The former spokesperson in letter dated MARCH 12TH, said Mr. Adebayo owes him the sum of N13million in emoluments from November…
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…