http://ift.tt/2vro8n4 LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security operatives from the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services have taken over the Bayelsa State secretariat of the All Progressives Congress following the suspension of the state chairman of the party, Tiwei Orunimighe, and two others. Some of the executives of the party loyal to a former…
http://ift.tt/2utgSm9 Boko Haram Leader Abubakar Shekau LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Army has reiterated its determination to arrest or kill the Boko Haram terrorist leader Abubakar Shekau on or before the expiration of the 40-day ultimatum earlier given. The Army spokesman Brigadier General Sani Usman revealed this in Buniyadi, Yobe state, one of the front…
http://ift.tt/2vyXsAs LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Neymar opened a new extravagant chapter in soccer history Friday as the game’s costliest player by fending off questions about his financial motivations as deftly as he repels opponents on the pitch. Paris Saint-Germain’s 222 million euro ($262 million) recruit was sticking to the script at his presentation in the French…
http://ift.tt/2v7mcgQ Owner of Vintage Hotel, Chief Patrick Okeze (right), and his workers – Sunday Isang (middle) and Bright Oba (left) before their arraignment at the Yaba Magistrate Court for allegedly aiding homosexuality, on Friday, August 4, 2017. LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday remanded three men accused of owning a…
http://ift.tt/2vpV53n LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, on Friday, paid a personal visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at Abuja House, London. This was confirmed by Buhari’s spokesperson, Femi Adesina, in a statement. Adesina said Welby and his principal are friends, who share deep respect for each other. “The cleric pledged to continue…
http://ift.tt/2v4gL3J L-R: Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and former president, National Association of Seadogs(NAS), Dr Asani Omosuwa at the 20th Annual Wole Soyinka Lecture on the topic: Nigerian State in the Aftermath of the Centenary, Prospects for its indivisibility in Benin City on Friday. LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nobel Laureate,…
http://ift.tt/2ubRjKO LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-People were left in shock after a Nigerain man who reportedly injested drugs died after it exploded in his stomach. The man identified as Mr. Sylvanus Amachukwu Godwin, a Nigerian national with Passport Number A06011089 aboard an Ethiopian Airlines Flight 606 en-route Addis Ababa to Guangzhou, China allegedly slumped and died…
http://ift.tt/2uqlmdf Ladoja and Akala LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two former governors of Oyo State, Rasheed Ladoja and Adebayo Alao-Akala, appear to have begun moves to return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Messrs. Ladoja and Alao-Akala were elected on the platform of the PDP as governor and deputy governor in 2003. Mr. Alao-Akala was later elected…