LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has announced his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The governor made the announcement during a meeting with elected local government chairmen and councillors on Wednesday at the Government House Makurdi, hours after protesting youths barred him from traveling to…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suleiman Wambai, North-Central National Vice Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) said Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State is not leaving the party. Wambai told newsmen on Wednesday in Lafia that the governor has not officially written to the party about his intention to leave. He said that despite the lack of…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue says he has ceased to be a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), following what he called “a red card” given to him. Ortom made this known on Monday in Makurdi shortly after swearing in a new Special Adviser on Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Police said it smashed two gun running and arms dealing ring and a gang of robbers and kidnappers in the Benue-Taraba axis, making 11 arrests. Among the suspects arrested was one Miracle Emmanuel, a 27-year-old gun dealer from Anambra State based in Takum, Taraba State. With his three-man gang, the…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– Pope Francis has decried an attack on a church in Nigeria that killed 15 people, including two priests. In remarks Sunday to the public in St. Peter’s Square, the pontiff prayed that Nigeria’s Christian community can find harmony and peace. The massacre last week occurred in Benue state in central Nigeria,…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Anambra, Mr. Peter Obi, has consoled the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria; the Governor of Benue State, Dr. Samuel Ortom, and the entire people of the State as well the families of the priests and other faithful killed in the attack in the Church. He also regretted that…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Benue State have urged members of the public to disregard the information being circulated that four mosques were set ablaze in Makurdi metropolis by some hoodlums. Also, the police said a similar information being circulated that another church was attacked by bandits at Agana village in Mbaloh Ward of…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Three members of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Benue State were reportedly killed and several others wounded in the fracas that trailed the party’s senatorial caucus meeting, held in Otukpo, on Friday. Otukpo is the headquarters of Benue South senatorial district. According to a Sunday Tribune source, the fight broke…