LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have abducted a retired Major-General an Imo State community in Nigeria’s South-East. The victim, identified simply as Maj Gen RC Duru (rtd), was abducted last weekend in Orji area, Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State. SaharaReporters learnt that the Major-General was driving himself in a black Mercedes Benz ML…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bauchi Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has dismissed as “fable and rhetorical satire” the assurance of elements of surprise promised by President Bola Tinubu in his 2023 Independence Day celebration broadcast coming up on Sunday, 1st October 2023. The State Chairman of the NLC, Dauda Shaibu while fielding questions from…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian tourism minister has been hospitalised in Abuja after suffering acute poisoning from unknown origins, Peoples Gazette was told, as her family members fear time was running against their efforts to save her life. Lola Ade-John, 60, was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, shortly after she started manifesting symptoms of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party–LP, will be delivering a speech at Chinua Achebe International Symposium, and the 10th Anniversary Memorial and 40th Anniversary of his seminal booklet “The Trouble with Nigeria” at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. The former governor of Anambra State disclosed this in a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 39-year-old Nigerian who was murdered by beating in the Italian city of Civitanova Marche in the Province of Macerata’s Marche Region has at last received justice. The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed this in a statement signed by NIDCOM spokesperson Gabriel Odu on Thursday. Dabiri-Erewa who expressed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned the Chief Executive Officer of Emee Oil And Gas Nig. Ltd., Florence Onojame, who allegedly defrauded Access Bank of N4.4 billion. NAN reports that Onojame appeared before an Ikeja Special Offences Court alongside her company on a three-count charge of conspiracy, stealing…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Works Dave Umahi was locked inside his office by protesting workers who accused him of highhandedness. Trouble started when the Minister ordered that the gate be locked against workers who came late to work. The union members comprising the Housing and Works Ministry decided to lock up the ministry, blocking…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barcelona face a bribery case in the Spanish courts over a refereeing scandal that could potentially lead to the club being banned from football, at a time when their finances are at their most precarious and the Nou Camp has been demolished. The last obstacle to a jury trial for Barcelona’s alleged…
