LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There is tension and palpable fear among the political class as All Progressives Congress, APC, has taken over the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, secretariat located at 42A Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar Municipality. This is coming barely three days after Governor Ben Ayade had defected to the ruling APC and commended his former party,…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Ayade announced his decision on Thursday morning during a meeting with six APC governors at the Government House in Calabar. The governors were led by the national caretaker chairman of the APC and Yobe State governor,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Cross River State has confirmed the murder of an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr Egbe Edum, by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday in Calabar. Edum before his murder was the Borno State Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP). Speaking with Channels Television in Calabar, the police spokesperson,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-It was gathered that at exactly 12:45pm on 1st December 2020, one Bassey Thompson of No 37 Nelson Mandela Street, Calabar South reported at Atakpa Police Station, that his nephew, Nsikak David was shot dead by a certain Esther Ezekiel of No 3, Atu Lane, Calabar South, who happen to be his…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was gathered that the victim, Mrs. Mary Samuel, met her untimely death on Wednesday when her landlord, David Okon, the owner of house No. 9, Ansa Ewa Street, Cobham Town in Bayside area of Calabar South Council poured petrol inside the room and set it ablaze, with the victim inside. One…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigerian minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that he regretted the verbal attack on a Daily Trust reporter Eyo Charles at a press briefing in Calabar. But the former minister did not apologise to the reporter directly and only “hope that this will assuage the pain and anger of anyone…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A 72-year-old male passenger died on an Air Peace Flight P47182 from Calabar to Abuja Flight P47182 on Friday. The deceased allegedly had a case of paraplegia due to spinal injury since 2019 was travelling for medical check-up in Abuja. He became very sick mid-flight and upon arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite the disruption of social activities occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, the throes of incessant cult clash threatening the peace and security of Cross River State reared its ugly head at the weekend when a former chapter chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ekpenyong Akom and an aide to Governor Ben…