LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Directorate Defence Information, Defence Headquarter (DHQ), has called for a collaboration effort with WorldStage Newsonline, Nigeria’s leading online news platform for the appropriate dissemination of information about the activities of the military across the country. Speaking on Tuesday during a courtesy visit to the WorldStage office in Abuja, Brigadier General John Agim,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected Boko Haram members have attacked Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, in Burasari local government area of Yobe state. The attack was confirmed by the Yobe state commissioner of police, Abdulmaliki Sunmonu. Sumonu confirmed the attack in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He said: “At about 5.30 p.m today,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The head office of the All Progressives Congress faction that placed a six months suspension on the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has been demolished alleged non payment of groundrent for eight month. The house was demolished around 4.00am this morning. The demolition was carried out in the early hours of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Calabar carnival activities in Cross River State is to gulp over four billion Naira while hiring of helicopter to cover the event was allocated N500 million. Similarly, N500 million was allocated for the payment of the five bands and another N500 million for other cost associated with the celebration. Consequently, the total…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGRS)-A 13-year-old male suicide bomber has reportedly been shot dead close to the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in Borno state. A security source told TheCable that the bomber was gunned down by the security operatives who sighted him as he was trying to sneak into the premises of the university. “The sound…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The trial of five men who were charged with illegal importation of 661 pump-action guns continued on Monday, with the first defendant, Mahmud Hassan, alleging that the gang paid N1 million to security agents to smuggle in the gun consignment at the Apapa Port, Lagos. Hassan made the allegation in a video…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will sell all assets seized by the government in anti-graft probes and use the funds to bolster the treasury, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday. Nigerian state coffers have in past years been ransacked by government officials and their associates, and corruption is prevalent throughout society. Buhari was elected in 2015…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi has reiterated that Nigerians must quickly search for a leader that will unite the country along the line of common citizenship and nationalistic objective, rather than the one with the tendency to further escalate the current misgivings among the divergent ethnic groups in the…