http://ift.tt/2uWEAHQ Communities Demand Stake in Ex-Shell Oil Block LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of communities in Nigeria’s Niger River delta demanded a stake in an oil block it said it was promised when Royal Dutch Shell Plc sold its share to a local company six years ago. The communities in the Gbaramatu district, near the…
http://ift.tt/2tAvIsb Fraud: Nigeria Fraudsters Bag Different Jail Terms In United Kingdom LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kayode Sanni, an illegal immigrant who headed a gang which used the identities of MPs, judges and police officers to con the taxpayer out of millions of pounds was jailed for more than five years. Sanni, 38, received a jail term…
http://ift.tt/2u2ZtF9 IN: Over 10 Die As Container Falls on 2 Fully Loaded Commercial Buses In Lagos LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS) No fewer than ten people have been reported dead as a container fell from a trailer and compressed two full loaed commercial buses in Ojota motor park, Lagos. The trailer, according to available information, lost…
http://ift.tt/2sQVMC8 Comedian Is Not A Badoo Cult Member- Family Insist LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family members of a comedian, Chinedu Paul aka Think Twice has refuted the allegation that he is a member of the dreaded Badoo cult group. Speaking at a joint press briefing between JPTS and the family of Chinedu Paul at Igando in…
http://ift.tt/2uBodBi Learn Nothing, After 50 Years Horrific Years Of Civil War Supporters of the Indigenous People of Biafra march in Port Harcourt in January in support of then-president-elect Donald Trump. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) By Eromo Egbejule Eromo Egbejule is a Lagos-based journalist covering West Africa. He is working on a documentary about the civil war….
http://ift.tt/2tXQ01F Customs Explains Why Bidders Can’t Access e-auction Site Hameed Ali LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Spokesperson of the Nigeria Customs Service, Joseph Attah, has said some people cannot access their e-auction portal because of technical problems. The portal was launched on Tuesday by the Comptroller-General, Hameed Ali. However, many interested bidders lamented the unavailability of the…
http://ift.tt/2sSOER2 Prison In Deplorable State LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Warri prison located in Okere in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State is seriously congested and in a deplorable state. According to Daily Post, the Prison which currently houses more than a thousand five hundred inmates usually suffers lack of water supply as a result…
http://ift.tt/2svDSki Police Arrest Amnesty Director, Seven Others Idil Eser, Director of Amnesty Turkey, was detained along with 7 other human rights defenders at a workshop in Istanbul on 5 July 2017. LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amnesty International has accused the Turkish police of arresting and detaining the Director of Amnesty International in Turkey, Idil Eser and…