LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bunch of gunmen on Tuesday attacked the country home of former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, in Otuoke Community under Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The attack, which occurred around 2:00am, came after Jonathan decided to move to his Yenagoa home at about 12:00am. According to sources, the two soldiers…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The management of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has appealed for calm among candidates who are undergoing the aptitude test for its recruitment exercise nationwide. The Agency stated that it is happy with the successful completion of the aptitude test in all the Centers except Abuja where impatience and unruly…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death for the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents. Saudi Arabia’s state-run Al-Ekhbariya TV channel reported that three others were sentenced to prison….
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Bleak Christmas awaits traders in Edo State, following the Sunday morning fire that engulfed popular Ekiosa market on Murtala Mohammed Way in Benin. Over 500 goats and stock worth millions of Naira were allegedly roasted in the inferno which began at 11’ o ‘clock around the area where livestock are sold. It…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten years after the foiled bombing of a US-bound flight from Amsterdam, Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab, the father of the underwear bomber, Farouk, has spoken publicly about the incident for the first time, describing it as the most trying of his life. Mutallab senior, who is 80 years old, said he initially…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)_Pandemonium broke out Sunday Evening in Damaturu at about 6:10 pm the Yobe state capital as gunshots and heavy artillery rented the air. According to a flawless report from an eye witness said the insurgents are trying to penetrate Damaturu from a nearby village, Babaginda but the heavy firepower of the military…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)- ChristianAkam has allegedly beheaded a three-year-old boy and sucked his blood in a church at Ugbenyim in Umuhuali community in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Daily Sun gathered that the accused person and the mother of the slain boy, Mrs Ukwa, who are from the same village, Onunwankwo in …
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Some beneficiaries of the Niger Delta Development Commission’s postgraduate foreign scholarship programme have accused the agency of abandoning them while studying abroad. The beneficiaries alleged that the commission had refused to pay their tuition, adding that the grants awarded to them when embarking on their various programmes abroad were also not paid….
