LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday rescheduled the trial of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from January 19 to 18, 2022. The shift in the trial date followed the abridgement of time granted by the Judge following a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The proposed Kano State Secretariat of the the Ahmadu Zago faction of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) recently confirmed as the authentic one by an Abuja High Court has been burnt down. The building, which serves as the campaign office of Sen. Barau Jibrin, a governorship hopeful and an arch-opponent of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Some influential Nigerians are working to undermine electronic voting, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said. According to INEC, some persons are working hard to undermine the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for future elections. This is coming just as the commission has also raised the alarm over…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Kano State Government has said that 29 people have been confirmed dead in the boat mishap that occurred in Bagwai on Tuesday while 14 others are still missing. The state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, made the disclosure at a press briefing on Wednesday in Kano. He said that the 29…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu is scheduled for an emergency hearing tomorrow (Thursday) that could lead to his release on bail. SaharaReporters exclusively learnt on Wednesday that the hearing could open the door for Kanu’s release on bail. This was confirmed exclusively to SaharaReporters by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-There was chaos and unrest in Yaoundé, Cameroon recently after a man reportedly won 13 billion CFA Francs ($22 million) on 1xBet but wasn’t paid. It was gathered that the man played a bet with $350 (200,000 CFA Francs) and won the 13bn CFA Frans/22 million dollars, but, rather than pay him…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Lagos State rejected findings by a judicial panel that security forces carried out a “massacre” of unarmed protesters last year, maintaining that only one person suffered a gunshot wound, according to a paper issued by the government this week. The judicial panel, which submitted its full report last month, was tasked…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Roman Catholic priest is collecting and saving hundreds of traditional pre-Christian religious artefacts in southeast Nigeria that new converts to Christianity had planned to burn. The collection includes carvings of pagan deities and masks, some of them more than a century old and considered central to the pre-Christian religion of the…
