LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Bleak Christmas awaits traders in Edo State, following the Sunday morning fire that engulfed popular Ekiosa market on Murtala Mohammed Way in Benin. Over 500 goats and stock worth millions of Naira were allegedly roasted in the inferno which began at 11’ o ‘clock around the area where livestock are sold. It…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Saturday kidnapped the proprietor of Dynamite Force Football Club based in Iyamho, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, Bernard Jomah. He was reportedly kidnapped along the Okenne-Lokoja Road in Kogi State between 7pm and 8pm on Friday on his way from Abuja. Family sources who confirmed the incident…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has maintained that his administration is strongly in support of the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari for a forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), noting that the state ranks highest in the commission’s abandoned project list. Obaseki said this when he received…
LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has recorded another major Cannabis haul in its Operation Thunder Strike IV, launched to rid the forests in Ondo and Edo States of Cannabis warehouses. The Agency on Wednesday intercepted and burnt down 181.2 tons of the illicit drug crop concealed in warehouses in Ala Forest…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The combined troops of 4 Brigade and 32 Artillery Brigade Nigerian Army, Exercise Crocodile Smile IV have recovered eight dane guns and 725 bags of substance suspected to be cannabis. The operation was in a joint operation with personnel of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). This was contained in a statement…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS-Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, National chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was on Friday morning placed under temporary house arrest as the police prevented him from attending the planned APC mega rally in Benin. It will be recalled that the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu had on Thurdsay suspended the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A cleric identified as Pastor Aimola John has slumped and died shortly after joining Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Aimola was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital he was rushed to. He had left the APC in 2015 alongside Pastor Ize-Iyamu and was among former…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has apologised to Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, Governor Godwin Obaseki and Chancellor of the Edo University, Iyahmo, Dr. Makanjuola over the attack on their convoy at his country home residence in Estako West local government. Comrade Oshiomhole said the people…