LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have invaded Rachael’s Orphanage Home opposite UBE Junior Secondary School in Naharati, Abaji Area Council, Abuja, and abducted seven orphans, including a security guard of the home in the area. Daily Trust learnt that three persons, which comprised of two house wives, Rukaiyyat Salihu, Suwaiba Momoh and…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee will today know its fate as an Abuja Federal High Court decides on the legality of its existence. Former APC National Vice Chairman, South-South, Mr. Hillard Eta, had in December 2020 approached an Abuja Federal High Court to declare him as acting National…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers have abducted two wives of Idris Mohammed, coucillor representing Gwako ward in Gwagwalada Area Council, FCT and three others. The names of the abducted councilor’s two wives, his younger sister and his two younger brothers were yet to be ascertained. A resident, who preferred anonymity, said the incident happened around 12:…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Rights activist and Amnesty International designated Prisoner of Conscience, Omoyele Sowore, and other activists in Abuja who were carrying out a peaceful procession to mark the New Year have been arrested by Nigerian security forces. Eyewitnesses say policemen suspected to be with the Rapid Response Squad stormed Gudu junction in Abuja, wounding…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Online publishers under the aegis of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) have bemoaned the death of their member, Mr Ben Bright-Mkpuma, publisher of Watchdog Reporters. Bright-Mkpuma, aged 52, died on Christmas Day in his sleep after battling kidney failure for five years. He was certified dead at Zenith Medical Centre,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, has declared his intention to vie for Nigeria’s presidency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in 2023. He said this at a media briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. According to him, he had on three occasions stepped down to enable…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian, Kingsley Adendu Elechi, who had spent the last 13 years in Brazil, flew into the country on Monday to prepare for his wedding scheduled for January. But he will no longer be able to prepare or even attend the wedding, as he was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport. Elechi,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former National Vice-Chairman (South-South), All Progressives Congress, Hilliard Eta, has rejected his expulsion by the National Executive Committee of the party, which met at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday. He described the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee as an illegal contraption, which had no constitutional powers to…