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Customs Intercepts Petrol Tanker Loaded With Smuggled Rice

LAGOS JULY 5TH(NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service, Zone “B” Federal Operations Unit, has impounded an empty petrol tanker, a J5 bus and a truck conveying smuggled rice on the Kaduna-Zaria axis. Usman Dakingari, the Controller, FOU Zone B, dropped the hint while addressing journalists on the seizures in Kaduna on Wednesday. He said that the customs […]

French President, Macron Parties At Fela Kuti’s New Afrika Shrine In Nigeria

LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWRANGERS)- French President Emmanuel Macron shook up his two-day visit to Nigeria with a stop at the New Afrika Shrine, a concert hall founded by the late music legend Fela Kuti where partying Nigerians gather, though the usual gyrating dancers and marijuana were absent. Macron, who was an intern in Nigeria at […]

Giving Land For Ranching Better Than Death –Femi Adesina

LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina charged those against the administration’s ranching and colony programmes for herdsmen to rethink, noting that they are better off living with the ranches and colonies than dying through the persisting conflicts. Femi Adesina, speaking on an AIT morning programme in […]

Gani Adams Declares Readiness To Lead Battle Against Killer Herdsmen

LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following recent killings in the country, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, yesterday, declared his readiness to lead fight against killer herdsmen. Calling for a South-West Security Summit to discuss herdsmen killings in the zone, Adams noted that events of the last few months have shown that Nigeria is […]

Armed Robbers Of Bank Customers Meet Their Waterloo After Stealing N250,000

LAGOS JULY4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A gang of robbers have met their Waterloo at Morogbo, in the Badagry area of Lagos State after they were caught for robbing a bank customer of N250,000. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects were beaten to a pulp by a mob on Friday before they were handed over to policemen from the […]

Police Commence Investigation Of Brutal Killing Of Seven Policemen By Armed Bandits

LAGOS JULY 4H (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force says investigation is ongoing to arrest the suspected killers of seven policemen in Galadimawa area of Abuja. Suspected gunmen on Monday night at a roundabout in Galadimawa area of Abuja killed the policemen who were on stop-and-search duty. The force spokesman and Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police, Jimoh […]

Nigeria, Five Other Countries Abstain From Signing AU Free Trade Pact

LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-nine out of the 55 members of the African Union have signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. However, Nigeria and five other countries failed to sign the deal. This was revealed by AU Chairperson and President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, as he made the announcement in Nouakchott during the […]

Killings: Senate Initiates Process For Creation Of State, Community Police

LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate plans to amend the Constitution to allow for the creation of state and community police. Senate President Bukola Saraki disclosed the plan on Tuesday, three days after he faulted the country’s security infrastructure and called for the removal of incapable security chiefs. “Today, my colleagues and I in the eighth […]

DSS Besiege Ekiti School, Arrests Teachers Over PVCs

LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANAGERS)-Operatives of the Department of State Services on Tuesday swooped on a popular secondary school in Ado-Ekiti, Ola Oluwa Muslim Grammar School, and arrested some members of staff. Those arrested are the Secretary to the Principal, one Mrs. Olagbemi, and an Office Assistant, one Mrs. Ogunrinde. They were arrested for allegedly collecting […]

US: White House Respond To Canadian Tariff Retaliation

LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- – The White House said on Monday that Canada’s decision to enact tariffs on C$16.6 billion ($12.63 billion) worth of American goods in retaliation for U.S. tariffs on imports of Canadian steel and aluminum would not help its economy. “Escalating tariffs against the United States does nothing to help Canada. It […]

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