LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Sixteen Nigerian states have agreed to the establishment of cattle colonies proposed by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh as a solution to the incessant herdsmen crisis. It was gathered that some 16 states, all in the North, have volunteered land for the establishment of cattle colonies in…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi may stage a return to Europe after reports suggested to Turkish giants Fenerbahce were keen sign him before the close of this January transfer window. The 30-year-old moved to Chinese side Tianjin TEDA exactly one year ago after spending more than a decade at the English Premier…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)The plot to possibly prevent President Muhamnadu Buhari from having an automatic ticket to contest the 2019 presidential election appears to be thickening by the day, as some prominent political figures of northern extraction have thrown their weights behind the South- West Caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which recently demanded…
LAGOS JANURY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Head of Investigation at the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr. Wale Odu, yesterday narrated before Justice Ayokunle Faji of a Federal High Court in Lagos how two Customs officers, Mahmud Hassan and Salisu Abdullahi Danjuma, conspired with four others to illegally import 661 pump-action rifles into the country last year…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has inaugurated a mobile police unit, the Squadron 63 Mobile Police Base Igbogbo Baiyeku, Ikorodu area of Lagos State. The Squadron 63 Police Mobile Force (PMF), headed by a superintendent of police, was equiped with anti-riot policemen to curb killings in Ikorodu area of Lagos. The…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja-based media firm, Image Merchants Promotion Limited, and its promoter, Mallam Yushau Shuaib, have slammed a N200 million suit against Access Bank Plc over an alleged unlawful freezing of their four different accounts with the bank in the past two years. The bank was dragged before a High Court of the Federal…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Umar Gali Na’Abba, has said President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the physical and intellectual capacity to govern Nigeria. Na’Abba said this when one of our correspondents contacted him to confirm comments attributed to him concerning calls on the President to seek a second term. He…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nineteen political parties are reportedly discussing a merger deal ahead of the 2019 general elections. This was disclosed by the national chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), Dr. Onwubuya Breakforth. According to Breakforth, the parties are discussing a merger deal to form a ‘third force’ ahead of the 2019 general…
