LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force, Federal Capital Territory Command, has denied raiding the head office of Peoples Gazette newspaper. Policemen on Friday allegedly raided the head office of the newspaper in Abuja and arrested one of its editors, journalists, and staff members. According to a report by Peoples Gazette, John Adenekan, an assistant…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A pastor and his son were on Monday afternoon arrested by the police in Kubwa in the FCT over the mutilated female corpse dumped in the area. City & Crime had reported how the corpse, which was cut into nine parts, alongside a dead goat and a dead dog, was discovered on…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of the Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT has been shot dead by bandits who attacked him on his way after conducting a business transaction. Also killed along with the Chairman were three of his members who were with him. Vanguard gathered that the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released final list of 473 candidates of Federal capital Territory (FCT) Local Government election taking place on Saturday, 12th February 2022. Making the pronouncement at the stakeholders meeting held at the Nigeria Airforce Conference Centre, Abuja on Tuesday, 8th February, 2022, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal government through the ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development on Tuesday flagged off the distribution of Utensils under the National Home Grown School Programme in the North Central Zone. In a release by Nneka Ikem Anibeze the Special Assistant on Media to the minister, the occasion took…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An oil tanker exploded killing no fewer than ten people, leaving others badly injured in Abuja. The explosion happened in the Gawu area of Abaji Local Government Area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The incident happened on Sunday when a tanker was trying to avoid colliding with a truck. After noticing…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has arrested six suspects in Apo over alleged kidnapping. This is contained in a statement by ASP Mariam Yusuf, FCT Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Abuja on Sunday. Yusuf said the suspects were arrested following credible intelligence report indicating that they had…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, are living in palpable fear as kidnappers now operate freely without hindrance from security operatives. Around midnight on Thursday, four gunmen scaled the fence to the house of a journalist with Punch Newspapers, Mr Okechukwu Nnodim, in Abuja, shooting sporadically into the air. After…