LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Defence Intelligence Agency’s Annual Defence Advisers/Attachés’ Conference and the Maiden Defence Intelligence Retreat are scheduled to hold from 8 to 13 November 2021 at the Defence Intelligence Agency and the Nigerian Army Resource Centre Asokoro, Abuja respectively. A press statement signed by Acting Director Defence Media Operations, Bridadier General Bernard Onyeuko sighted…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Socialite and businessman, Obinna Iyiegbu, aka Obi Cubana, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The Anambra-born tycoon, who arrived the headquarters of the EFCC at Jabi Abuja at about noon on Monday, was still being interrogated by operatives of the Commission as at 10:30 pm. Though allegations…
LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has said the agency recovered 301 houses from two public officers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The revelation came at the inauguration of the House of Representatives adhoc Committee on Investigation of the Operations of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman of Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mamood Yakubu has affirmed that his Commission is determined to proceed with the Anambra State Governorship election as scheduled. Yakubu who gave the assurance at a special meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Electoral Securities (ICCES) on the Anambra Governlrship Election held at INEC…
Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has commended members of the National Assembly over the early amendment of the Electoral Bill. Yakubu who made the commendation in a goodwill remark during a meeting with the Senate and House of Representatives conference committee on the Electoral Act amendment bill 2021 in Abuja…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, South- West Nigeria, has expressed serious concerned over the sudden disappearance of Vanguard Newspaper’s House of Representatives Correspondent, Mr. Tordue Salem since last Wednesday. Mr. Salem was reportedly last sighted within the premises of a Total Filling Station, opposite the FCT, Abuja Police headquarters on Wednesday…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rocking back and forth, Shlomo Ben Yaakov reads from a Torah scroll at a synagogue on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Intermittently his soft mellow voice rises in Hebrew and he is joined by the dozens who recite after him. Most do not fully understand the language, but this small Nigerian…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian, Okey Eze, who claims to be a tiler by profession has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with 350 wraps of cocaine worth over N2.3billion in street value. The 38-year-old Eze, from Orji River, in Oji-River Local…