LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the 2023 governorship election in Delta State, a pan-Delta socio-political group, Delta Icons (DI), has been inaugurated to foster unity, equity and accommodation of the interests of all Deltans in the choice of who succeeds Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. The group, whose primary interest is to promote inclusive governance and development…
LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Management of Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited (HEOSL), operator of OML30, said it has done the needful and taken all necessary steps in line with best environmental practices to curtail the oil spill in Erhioke community. In a statement on Thursday, titled ”Re: Delta communities threaten to shut down oil firm…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Divergent views have continued to trail the Federal Government’s desire to appropriate the £4.2m recovered from Britain that former Governor James Onanefe Ibori and his associates looted. Indeed, groups and individuals are rising in support of repatriating the money to Delta State. Already, a human rights activist and lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Two members of a five-man gang of highway robbers were in the early hours of Saturday, February 27, 2021, smashed by police detectives attached to the Ogun State Command. The gang had barely stationed at the Sagamu Interchange on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, waiting to strike, when a police patrol team from Sagamu…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has condoled with the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, who lost his father, Chief Arthur Okorie Uzoma Okowa, on the early hours of Thursday, January 28, 2021. In a Condolence Message from his Media Office, Obi…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Urhobo youth leader from Kokori oil producing community in OML30, in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Comrade Odiri Umukoro, said he is satisfied that indigenes and youths from the 112 host communities in OML30, are fully engaged and securing the pipelines and oil facilities assets. Umukoro, who spoke Sunday…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Wednesday, received 10 expatriates that were rescued by security agencies in the state from the den of kidnappers. The foreign sailors were kidnapped on November 25 from their vessel along the Pennington River in neighbouring Delta State and brought into Bayelsa. The governor’s Chief Press…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A US based Nigerian medical doctor has shot his wife and thereafter turned the gun on himself. The incident happened in Texas , Saturday morning . The couple whose wife is a nurse are blessed with three children. No one could tell the reason for his action but this is how USA…