LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Bayo Ojulari, has announced plans to resume crude oil exploration activities in Kolmani, located between Gombe and Bauchi states. Ojulari made the disclosure during a recent interview with BBC Hausa. According to him, the company is fully prepared to return…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Bauchi State has arrested a 24-year-old woman, Furera Abubakar, over alleged murder of her four-day-old stepchild at Bantu village in Ningi Local Government Area of the state. This was contained in a statement by the Spokesman of the Command, SP Ahmed Wakil, on Tuesday in Bauchi. He said…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected kidnapper who was part of a syndicate that abducted a 23-year-old student of the Bauchi State University, slumped and died while trying to escape arrest at a military checkpoint. The deceased and two others who kidnapped the student were said to have also snatched a Toyota Camry 2010 model which…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Bauchi, Bauchi State, has convicted two bigwigs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state for conspiracy and money laundering involving N142 million. Saleh Gamawa and Aminu Gadiya were prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for receiving the total of N142,460,000 in cash…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Coalition of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi and his running mate, Yusuf Ahmed Datti, known as ObiDatti in Bauchi State, has dissociated itself from a poster in circulation having the pictures of Peter Obi and the presidential candidate of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP),…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, of plotting to derail his re-election. In a letter dated November 3, 2022, to the party’s national chairman, Iyorcha Ayu, Mohamed claimed that Atiku had threatened to “punish” him for running against him in the party’s…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Bauchi state has arrested a 32-year-old man identified as Isaac Ezekiel, of Rafin Zurfi Yelwa Bauchi Metropolitan, for allegedly plucking the eyes of a 16-year-old boy. LIB had earlier shared the story of how the victim identified as Uzairu Salisu, was employed to work on a farm and while carrying out…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-After the primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling party is now facing a threatening wave of defection from the north, where it has its stronghold. Most chieftains who are northern lawmakers in both the red and green chambers are abandoning the party for other political platforms for similar…