LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos and Kwara States government as well as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) are drumming support for the 7th annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), scheduled for Thursday, October 5 at the Abuja Continental Hotel (Old Sheraton) by 10am. Chairman of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hoodlums have hijacked trucks loaded with bags of 10kg of rice meant to be delivered to yet-to-be-ascertained communities as their shares of palliative to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal. It was gathered that the incident occurred at around 6:30 p.m. along the Oja-Oba/Idi-Ape/Isale-Oja axis of Ilorin, East, and West local…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A notorious bandit leader in Kaduna State, Ali Dogo, and 30 of his men have been killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), according to a report by PRNigeria. It was learnt that Dogo, also known as Yellow, and his gang members, were neutralized by airstrikes undertaken by the Air…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate Court in Ilorin Magistrates on Wednesday remanded Usman Abdulkareem, a husband, at a correctional facility for allegedly conspiring with a local medicine man and a friend to abduct his wife, Mumeenat for money ritual. It was gathered that Abdulkareem conspired with the medicine man, Babatunde Mohammed and a friend Fatai…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has lost the Kwara Central Senatorial District election to Ibrahim Oloriegbe of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Returning Officer, Professor Olawale Olatunbosun, announced this on Sunday shortly after collating the results of the election in the zone. According to him, Oloriegbe polled a total of…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)- Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCO) has donated four ultramodern science laboratories to Erku Secondary Commercial School in Ekiti Local Government area of Kwara State. This is the latest effort by the Shell deep offshore company to spread its social investments across Nigeria and boost the study of science…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was meant to be a gathering to pray for a politician’s mother, but yesterday’s session in Ilorin was more than that. Politicians latched onto the prayer to smoothen defection talks between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Reformed-All Progressives Congress(R-APC)—the conclave of aggrived APC members. The secret session was between…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Kwara, Alhaji Kawu Baraje has said that parallel congresses of the party in 21 out of its 22 controlled states is a bad omen that all is not well with the party. Alhaji Kawu Baraje stated this on Sunday while speaking with journalists…