LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the release of his aides arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services at his house in the Soka area of Ibadan on July 1. Counsel for the Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Yomi Aliyu (SAN), told our…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A document has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide on social media, Lauretta Onochie is still a card-carrying member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and equally participating actively in party politics. Senator Kabir Gaya led Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday screened Onochie in consideration of…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A driver using a Dangote Sugar Refinery truck to allegedly smuggle rice has been arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said on Tuesday. The Abuja commandant of the NCS, Hussein Ejibunu, said on Tuesday that two accomplices were arrested alongside the driver at Suleja, Niger State. He said the truck was…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram and Islamic State West African Province terrorists have been taxing residents of Marte, Abadam, Kukawa and Guzamala areas of Borno state for road use. That is aside from the levies farmers and fishermen have to pay on their produce. SaharaReporters gathered that the failure of residents to comply with this…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A petition, calling for the ban of the consumption of dog meat in Nigeria have garnered thousands of signatures online. Titled “Stop Nigeria’s Barbaric Dog Meat Industry,” the petition seeks a ban and shutdown of the dog meat trade industry in Nigeria. As at the time of this report, the petition which was…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, says efforts have been intensified by the ministry to recover to over N37 billion debts owed by airlines in the country. The minister made this known at the weekly ministerial press briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Thursday. Sirika…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The British Government has warned that the rise in conflicts can destabilise Nigeria’s democracy in the run-up to the 2023 elections. This is even as governors on the platform of Nigeria Governors’ Forum have declared that the level of insecurity across parts of the country is not only eroding citizens’ safety and…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police have arrested a 45-year-old man parading himself as an Assistant Commissioner of Police in Kano. This was announced in a statement issued on Wednesday by Kano police spokesman, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa. The statement said Mohammed Aliyu went to a hotel in Kano metropolis and requested for accommodation in order to…
