LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four suspected armed robbers have been arrested for hijacking a trailer load of Golden Penny flour long Shagamu-Ijebu Ode Expressway of Ogun State. The suspects who carted away the items on April 16 were arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command on May 5, police authorities confirmed to Channels Television…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has concluded plans to temporarily relocate the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation from Afaka to a safer location within the Kaduna metropolis. This was also as the government announced that it would now shoulder the responsibility of paying the school fees of all the 37 kidnapped and released students….
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chief in Zimbabwe has ordered the exhumation and reburial of Robert Mugabe’s remains at the national heroes’ shrine in Harare after accusing the late leader’s wife of breaking local custom by interring him at his rural home in 2019. Mugabe, who was ousted in a coup that brought Emmerson Mnangagwa to…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of protesters partially blocked a highway into Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Monday after residents reported a spate of kidnappings in the area. Setting tyres on fire, a crowd barricaded a section of the Abuja-Kaduna highway in the Tafa area of Niger state, bordering the federal capital, an AFP journalist at the…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military officers in Mali detained the president, prime minister and defence minister of the interim government on Monday, deepening political chaos just months after a military coup ousted the previous president, multiple sources told Reuters. President Bah Ndaw, Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and defence minister Souleymane Doucoure were all taken to a…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Faced with numerous challenges for the smooth operation and development of barge operation business in the maritime industry, members of Barge Operators Association of Nigeria (BOAN) have called on the Federal Government and regulators of maritime industry to come to their assistance so that they can be able to execute their business…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pharaoh Okadigbo, son of an ex-senate president, the late Chuba Okadigbo, is dead. Pharaoh is said to have died in a car accident that occurred on Saturday, but the cause of his death had not been independently verified as of the time of this report. Reacting to the news of his death…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Governor Ben Ayade-led All Progressives Congress (APC) takes over the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Calabar, the Police have warned hoodlums to steer clear and not forment any trouble, in view of ongoing renovation work. However, some artisans, yesterday, who claimed to be renovating the PDP Secretariat, were painting it…
