LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Customs has successfully assisted a lawmaker in recovering a stolen Toyota Land Cruiser SUV car. This was disclosed by the sector coordinator of the JBPT and acting assistant comptroller of customs, Olugbenga Peter disclosed, to newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State, yesterday. Peters said the vehicle was seized from two suspected…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abdul Adamu Kinkiba, Councilor in Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State has been arrested with AK-47 around the Giwa Local Government Area of the state. Daily Trust reports that the area is close to a den of the bandits terrorising many parts of the state. The chairman of Soba Local Government…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen early on Wednesday morning invaded the country home of an Imo State lawmaker Ekene Nnodumele in Ebenato, Awo Idemili, in Orsu Local Government Area, and beheaded a gateman on duty and set the house on fire. Nnodumele represents Orsu Constituency, in the Imo State House of Assembly, Ekene Nnodumele. The gunmen…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Emir of Kaura Namoda,Ahmad Muhammad Asha also known as Sarkin Kiyawan Kaura Namoda has died in the early hours of Sunday at the age of 71. His younger brother, Abdulkarim Ahmad Asha, the Dan Jekan Kaura Namoda told Daily Trust that the Emir had battled diabetes and hypertension for a…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The lawmaker representing Osun East Senatorial District at the Senate, Francis Adenigba Fadahunsi, has raised the alarm that second-hand clothes – popularly known as Okrika – from China were being brought into the country through the Onne Port in Rivers State. Fadahunsi, who is the vice-chairman, Senate Committee on Customs, said the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has dragged the State House of Assembly to court over the probe of his administration’s procurement of 820 buses worth N7 billion for public transport. A Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Tuesday ordered the assembly’s speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, to appear before it. Justice Y.A….
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The lawmaker representing Obudu Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, Mr. Steven Ukpukpen, slumped and died during an early morning workout on Wednesday. The incident happened at 7am along Moore Road in Calabar. The lawmaker was said to have been rushed to a nearby Navy Clinic, but medical officials…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Mace of the Gombe State House Assembly has been stolen during a session to remove the Minority Leader. The Minority Leader, Mohammed Usman Haruna, was reported to have held a press conference on May 5 condemning the ward congress of the All Progressives Congress in the state. This angered members of…