LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election’s, Mr Peter Obi made a surprise visit to Maiduguri on Thursday. Obi was sighted among congregation at St Patrick Catholic Church during the episopal ordination of the Maiduguri auxiliary bishop. Obi however declined to comment, saying he came only to attend…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 50 people were killed by militants on Sunday around the town of Rann in Nigeria’s Borno state, in the country’s northeastern tip near the border with Cameroon, witnesses told Reuters by phone on Monday. Since 2009, Nigeria’s northeast and Borno state in particular have been the centre of an insurgency…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian entrepreneur Mustapha Gajibo has been converting petrol mini-buses into electric vehicles at his workshop, but he is now going a step further to build solar battery-powered buses from scratch in a push to promote clean energy and curb pollution. Africa’s top producer and exporter of crude oil has heavily-subsidised gasoline and…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-ISIS extremists have callously executed 20 Christians in Nigeria in a bloodthirsty rampage to ‘avenge the killing of the group’s leaders in the Middle East’. The terrorist group published footage of the ruthless killings, showing the masked knife and gun-wielding fanatics standing behind their kneeling victims. The militants carried out the merciless…