LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has declared Tuesday July 20 and Wednesday July 21, 2021, as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, congratulates all Muslim faithful and Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora on…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stakeholders in the Maritime industry have appealed to the Federal Government to offer the immediate past Executive Secretary of Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Barrister Hassan Bello a higher appointment. Recall that Freight forwarding association and other maritime industry stakeholders on Monday, converged at Rockview Hotel, Apapa, Lagos to honour Mr Hassan Bello, for…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the release of his aides arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services at his house in the Soka area of Ibadan on July 1. Counsel for the Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Yomi Aliyu (SAN), told our…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has said the rearrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, was in accordance with the legal process. The Special Assistant to the Minister on Media and Public Relations, Jibrilu Gwandu, in a telephone interview…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A group seeking a separate homeland for the ethnic Igbo people of Nigeria’s southeast demanded ‘justice and fair hearing’ on Wednesday after their leader Nnamdi Kanu was detained. The head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was arrested and brought back to Nigeria to face trial, the authorities announced Tuesday. The…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A police sergeant serving in Gubja, Yobe State, has accused the authorities of abandonment. In a video, which has gone viral on social media, the officer lamented over his plight and that of his colleagues. The sergeant narrated how he survived a Boko Haram attack in which many policemen were killed. He…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has told the ECOWAS court that it lacked the jurisdiction to criminalise the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria as the suspension of the operations of Twitter in Nigeria is not a right recognised under any treaty enforceable by the ECOWAS court. The Federal government stated this in a preliminary…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, said that approval has been given for a Nigeria Law School campus to be sited in Port Harcourt, the State capital. A Government House press statement issued in Port Harcourt on Wednesday by the governor’s Special Assistance on Media, Kevin Ebiri, said that the governor made the…