http://ift.tt/2A8bsV3 CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), default quality LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Lawmakers in the upper house of Nigeria’s parliament voted on Tuesday to launch an investigation into alleged acts of brutality by a specialist unit of the police. The move follows a social media campaign calling for the Special Anti-Robbery Squad…
http://ift.tt/2ARKPDE LAGOS DECEMBER 5H (NEWSRANGERS)-Controversy has trailed the death of a secondary school teacher in Anambra State, Miss Rita Odilinye of Starlight Secondary School, Ogidi in Idemili North local government area following reports that she was killed by the mother and a relation of her schoolgirl who she allegedly flogged for not carrying out her…
http://ift.tt/2AvqIsc Dr Ifeanyi Okowa LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday inaugurated the National Planning Committee to conduct its Dec. 9 national convention. The committee headed by Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta was inaugurated by the Chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the party, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, in Abuja. At the ceremony, Makarfi…
http://ift.tt/2AMK52B LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pandemonium broke out in Ajaokuta Local Government Area of Kogi State on Sunday after a police officer allegedly shot dead a young man identified as Mohammed Ismail in the area. The deceased, a father of one, met his untimely death while attending a rally to flag off the formal declaration of…
http://ift.tt/2zPKtK5 LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kaduna State, Alhaji Yaro Makama has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and returned to the PDP. Makama decamped to the APC prior to the 2015 general election. DAILY POST had reported that the former PDP chieftain and over 1000 of…
http://ift.tt/2jdAmbu Senatr Ayo Arise LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Ayo Arise, who represented Ekiti North Senatorial District in the National Assembly from 2007 to 2011 has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen along Okene-Abuja Highway. Sources told our correspondent in Ado-Ekiti on Monday that the kidnappers are demanding the payment of N80 million to free him. Arise,…
http://ift.tt/2iRR0R8 Mrs Bolanle Ambode LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President/CEO of Coscharis Group, Dr. Cosmas Maduka, and Her Excellency, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, the First Lady of Lagos State, have charged parents and caregivers to inculcate positive values in children and youths alike for a better Nigeria. They also enjoined children and youths to pursue integrity and…
http://ift.tt/2ARHowR LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A statue of Argentine football star Lionel Messi has been vandalised in the capital, Buenos Aires. The bronze statue was chopped off just above the ankles, with the main “body” left lying on the pavement. It is the second time the statue, which was unveiled in June 2016, has been targeted…
