LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have kidnapped the mother of TheNiche Managing Director, Ikechukwu Amaechi. The kidnappers seized the septuagenarian at her village in Obohia Ahiazu Mbaise, Imo State on the night of March 3, and have demanded a ransom payment of N20 million. Despite her age, the kidnappers who had established communication with Amaechi after…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sacked 50 percent of its national secretariat staff. The memo containing the list of the affected staff was signed by the PDP Deputy National Secretary, Mr. Agbo Emmanuel and pasted on the party’s notice board at its National Secretariat yesterday in Abuja. It was titled: “Disengagement…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An evangelical pastor was jailed for 34 years in Britain on Friday, after he was convicted of a catalogue of rape and sexual abuse against children and adults over two decades. A judge said self-styled prophet Michael Oluronbi carried out “one of the worst cases of sexual abuse” against children to come…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Celebrations and events will be held around the world on Monday, 9 March to mark Commonwealth Day. This year’s event is centred around the theme ‘Delivering a Common Future’, highlighting how the 54 member countries in the Commonwealth family are ‘innovating, connecting and transforming’ to help achieve some of its biggest goals…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The cousin of Liverpool star Naby Keita is among nine Guinean footballers killed in a bus crash on Thursday. Almaty Traore is one of nine victims confirmed to have died, in a press release signed by General Mathurin Bangoura, president of the Guinean Professional Football League. Keita was travelling alongside teammates of…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGRS)-A renowned human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome SAN, has urged the Senate to restrain from passing the bill seeking an agency for rehabilitation of repentant Boko Haram members, arguing that the proposal is “madness taken to its very ludicrous Zenith and apogee”. He postulated that the proposed bill “is an unfortunate confirmation…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor, Major-General Bamidele Shafa, yesterday said that another batch of 606 ex-Boko Haram fighters are set to be reunited with their families after undergoing rehabilitation under the Federal Government’s Operation Safe Corridor program. Shafa made this known at the opening of a stakeholders’ meeting to work out…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has declared that no man born of a woman can bring him down because God is with him. Oshiomhole made the declaration while addressing journalists in Abuja, Thursday, about his suspension and reaffirmation as National Chairman. Recall that a Federal Capital Territory,…
