LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said his wife Aisha Buhari’s allegation that his government has been hijacked was baseless and described it as “her business.” Buhari insisted there was no cabal running his government and asked his critics to name one decision taken by the cabal. “That’s her business,” Buhari said during an…
LAGOS DECEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS)-The Army have confirmed the killing of thirteen soldiers and a police officer in Yobe State in a Boko Haram attack. According to the military, the insurgents lunched two successive attacks on a military formation and an ambush on the Maiduguri/Damaturu high way at about 6.30 pm. The statement which was signed by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2019 (NEWSRANGERS)-A Tunisian journalist has died after setting himself on fire, officials said, in a protest over harsh living conditions that prompted overnight clashes with police in the country’s west. Police fired tear gas at dozens of people who took to the streets Monday night in the city of Kasserine, 270 kilometres (165…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26T(NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has extended his benevolence hands to Aisha Haruna, a 13 year-old orphan from Daura, Kastina state, who was involved in an inferno that burnt her beyond recognition. The former vice president has approved immediate payment of all the hospital bills, including…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Mr. Peter Obi, on Tuesday celebrated the Christmas with prisoners at Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Anambra State. Obi, who was visiting the inmates for the third time this year, joined Archbishop Valerian Okeke of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province with his entire family for Christmas mass…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, on Monday said Nigerians are celebrating the 2018 Christmas with so much pains and in hunger. CUPP National Spokesman, Imo Ugochinyere, who said this in a statement made available to journalists, noted that most Nigerians were celebrating the season on empty stomach. He attributed the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos High Court at Igbosere has sentenced a woman, Mrs. Philomena Nwanorue to 22 years in prison for falsification of documents in a Visa application.Spokesperson to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) Rasheedat Okoduwa, disclosed this in a statement yesterday in Abuja.She said the ICPC arraigned the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian businessman, Femi Otedola, has agreed to sell the entirety of his 75 per cent direct and indirect shareholdings in Forte Oil. In a letter sent to the Nigerian Stock Exchange and signed by Akinleye Olagbende, the general counsel of Forte Oil, Otedola said he was divesting from the company in order…
