LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have abducted a PUNCH journalist, Okechukwu Nnodim, at his house in the Arab road area of Kubwa, Abuja, on Wednesday night. The kidnappers also attacked his neighbours and went away with the two sons of a widow, Mrs Faith Gbeyide. Narrating the incident on Thursday, Nnodim’s wife, Oluchi explained that her…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of the immediate past Service Chiefs and the Chief of Defence Intelligence to the Senate as non-career ambassadors-designate. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina disclosed this in a statement he issued in Abuja on Thursday. In a letter…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In the lyrics of one of the songs of the late reggae music legend lucky Dube, “it takes a million people to build up a good reputation, but it takes one stupid fool to destroy everything they’ve done.” Luck ran out of a self acclaimed business man, Onu Oluchuckwu after he was…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet to be identified man has reportedly died after he jumped from the 6th floor of the 1004 Estate in Lagos this morning. According to reports, EFCC officials stormed the Estate this morning to arrest some suspected fraudsters. Eyewitnesses say the operatives went from one apartment to the other, knocking, and…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Thursday Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), has fled to the United States (U.S). EFCC’s prosecuting counsel, Mohammed Abubakar, said this at the Federal High Court in Abuja where the younger Maina is…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA Resource Centre) has dragged to court the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, over the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations, 2019. HEDA said certain sections contradict the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), the Immigration Act and the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Edo on Wednesday said that it had arrested five kidnap suspects in Ahon community bushes on the Benin/Lagos Road. CP Philip Ogbadu, Commissioner of Police in the state, made this known when he paid a courtesy visit to Mr George Edem, Commandant, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have reportedly snatched N20m from accountants attached to Office of the Cabinet Department of the Ekiti Governor’s office on Wednesday during an attack. The accountants were said to have been waylaid while returning from a new generation bank along Government Secretariat road, Ado- Ekiti where they had gone to withdraw the…
