LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The multi-billion naira industrial park being built by Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in Odukpami, Cross River State, faces a threat of not achieving its purpose unless the poor state of Calabar – Itu road that leads to the park is fixed quickly. This is one of the discoveries…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidate of the Labour Pary, LP, Peter Obi said he attends church events because Nigeria needs prayers. Obi stated this in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital on Tuesday when he visited the former prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria and a former president of the Christian Association of Nigeria…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have kidnapped an Akwa Ibom-based televangelist, John Okoriko. The gunmen kidnapped the cleric on Tuesday evening when they invaded the headquarters of the church in his village, Ibekwe Akpanya in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of the state Mr Okoriko is the president and founder of the Solid Rock Kingdom Church….
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former senator from Akwa Ibom State, Nelson Effiong, has spent more than 50 days in captivity, since he was abducted by gunmen around September 6 in Uyo. Antai Effiong, a lawyer and younger brother to the former senator, told PREMIUM TIMES, Wednesday, that he was yet to be set free by…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Akwa Ibom State police command has arrested an artisan, one Ekike Hector David, for allegedly manufacturing AK-47 rifles and selling them to criminals in the state. A statement by the state police commissioner Mr Amiengheme Andrew, released by the command’ spokesman, Odiko MacDon (SP), said about 1 pm on September 13, 2021,…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hoodlums on Sunday night razed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State. According to a statement by National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee Festus Okoye, the burnt office was recently renovated. The statement added further this was not the first time…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female police officer was shot dead on Tuesday by some gunmen in Ika Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria’s South-south. The police spokesperson in the state, Odiko MacDon, confirmed the killing which appeared to be a continuation of the attack against security agents in the country’s South-east and South-south regions….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is panic in Inen Ikot Esse village in OrukAnam local government area of Akwa Ibom, as gunmen suspected to be cultists invaded a Pentecostal church and shot one of the church elders identified Elder Friday Ufenang. It was gathered that the suspected cultists numbering over 10 had stormed the church premises…