LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Worshippers, who turned out for service, were stranded as the warring factions put the church under lock and key. According to a report by The Nation, a Nigerian pastor has been locked out of his own church in Benue. Members of Congregation of NKST Church Achusa gave their resident Pastor a shock…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mixed reactions greeted the sack of the Service Chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari in Makurdi, the Benue state capital on Tuesday. While many people were visibly happy over the sack, some were indifferent to the removal of the Service Chiefs. Those that were indifferent argued that the sack was belated and as…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven persons, including a Catholic priest Father Kuluke, have died of COVID- 19 complications within one week in Benue State. The Chairman of the State Action Committee on COVID-19 and Deputy Governor, Benson Abounu, disclosed this on Monday while swearing-in Justice Aleje as a judge of the Customary Court of Appeal at…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On the day Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, was reconciling a Channels Television reporter, Pius Angbo, and his wife, Ifeyinwa, over domestic violence, a lady, now at large, has set her lover ablaze at his Shaahu road residence in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue over his alleged refusal to marry her….
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The house of the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State, Abba Yaro was on Monday attacked by angry youths in the state. The youths were reportedly angered by the death of a domestic staff who was said to have got electrocuted while attempting to cut the branch of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Uncertainty and anxiety have trailed the alleged reception of Alh. Aliyu Tashaku into the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Benue State. It was learnt that Tashaku who was a member of the dreaded Boko Haram sect dumped his killing profession with an eye on the Makurdi/Guma federal constituency under the APC come…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet to be identified 40-year-old man on Saturday set himself and his girlfriend ablaze in his house at the Inikpi area of Makurdi, Benue State, after pouring petrol on himself and the girl. The man, who committed the crime in his personal room, died immediately. The girl, who was burnt beyond…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five houses and a church known as Divine Shadow were, on Tuesday, set ablaze by some youths in Daudu, in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State over allegation of missing genitals. Youths had on Saturday protested round the town because of the allegation. The acting Tyoor of Guma, Chief Chado…