By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-‘Our nation’s greatness is measured by how we treat those who are the most vulnerable-AL-Gore, Former Vice President of the United States of America. Each passing day in Nigeria brings to mind the fact that despite the widening strides by civil society organizations (CSO’s) and development minded individuals to…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Godwin Obaseki has been dragged before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, accused of certificate forgery and perjury. The case was filed on 29 May. The plaintiffs in the case are Edobor Williams, Ugbesia Abudu Godwin and Amedu Dauda Anakhu. Joined as defendants are the All Progressives Congress (APC), Independent National…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Police Command has arrested one of the suspects linked to the rape and murder of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa. The 22-year-old 100-level student of the University of Benin, Edo State was raped and killed by unknown persons while reading in RCCG church in Benin city. Confirming the arrest, Spokesman…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, yesterday presented his All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship nomination form to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Commenting on the feud between him and the National Chairman of his party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, in an interaction with State House Correspondents, Obaseki said he was…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The kidnapped Leader of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Presley Ediagbonya, had been found dead in the bush, two days after he was kidnapped. Though the police could not confirm the development, the member representing Ovia Federal Constituency of Edo State, Denis Idahosa, described it as a sad development. Ediagbonya,…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers who held Nigeria Army captain identified as Gana, captive have fled and abandoned their victims in the forest they were kept. The kidnappers were said to have fled after security operatives closed in on their hideout. Gana and two others were kidnapped on Tuesday by gunmen around Auga-Akoko-Ibilo, boundary towns between…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Pandemonium rocked Edo State earlier today, April 28, as a man surrendered himself to the police after the bag of beans he stole refused to leave his head. It was revealed that the man confessed to stealing the bag of beans to the Police. The men of the police command has…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare II, has called on Governor Godwin Obaseki, to effect a total lockdown of the state, to curtail the spread of the Coronavirus. In a letter to the governor, dated April 16, the monarch stated that the state government should in addition direct the that there should be…