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…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A narco trafficker, Ibeh Kenneth Ejike has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja for ingesting 87 wraps of cocaine. The 41-year-old suspect who was arrested on Wednesday, 25th August, 2021, upon his arrival on board an Ethiopian Airline flight…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved recommendations of a committee to review “with dispatch, 368 grazing sites, across 25 states in the country, and to determine the levels of encroachment.” Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He said…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mrs Hadiza Shagari, wife of Nigeria’s Late former President Shehu Shagari, is dead. She was aged 80-year-old. Her family said she died at a COVID-19 Isolation Centre in Abuja on Thursday. She is expected to be buried today. “We regret to announce the demise of our beloved mother, Hajiya Hadiza Shehu Shagari,…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have deployed their personnel in the headquarters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the federal capital territory (FCT). The development sparked tension around the APC national secretariat, recently christened Muhammadu Buhari House. It is unclear why the police deployed their personnel in the secretariat, but TheCable understands that the…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State House of Assembly has cut the pension of former governors of the state by 50 per cent. The decision was taken after the adoption of a report by the House committee on establishment which gave the recommendation, according to a statement on Thursday by the chief press secretary to the…