LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government is set to commence cash payment to 200,000 Nigerians. The beneficiaries are urban poor senior citizens that do not have access to regular income and are impacted by COVID-19. Iorwa Apera, Coordinator, National Social Safety Net Programme, made the announcement on Monday in Abuja. The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (MEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has filed fresh terrorism charges against a Shia Muslim cleric, a prosecution lawyer said Sunday, days after he was acquitted of murder following almost six years in detention. A court in the northern city of Kaduna discharged Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife on Wednesday because of a lack of evidence in…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday threatened total lockdown of the Southeast and other Biafra States from Monday August 9, 2021 if its leader, Nnamdi Kanu is not unconditionally released before then. It also asked Governors, individuals and businessmen it earlier listed as collaborators with the Federal government to the…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos Human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, has filed a suit against the federal government at the Federal High Court, Abuja, praying the court to declare Nigeria’s membership of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as illegal. Aside the Federal Government, other defendants are the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and…
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…
