LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Protesters defied the Federal Government order banning them from holding the #RevolutionNow protest called by the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Mr. Omoyele Sowore. Sowore, who was arrested on Saturday by operatives of the Department of State Services on account of the then scheduled protest, was the presidential candidate of the African Action…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWRANGERS)-Chiemela Iroha, one of the five persons abducted off the Lagos─Ore Expressway at Ogbere (Ogun State) has given insight into why the “Fulani herdsmen” kidnapped and herded them into the forest. Iroha and four others – as Chidioze Eluwa, Okoro Ohowukwe, Ndubuizi Owuabueze, and Ibeleji Chidinma ─ were abducted at the J3,…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-An unidentified man has reportedly strangled a young woman identified as Maureen after having sex with her in a hotel located in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The incident was said to have happened on Peremabiri Street, D-Line in the Rivers State capital. It was gathered that Maureen believed to be the man’s girlfriend,…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The parish priest of St. James the Great Catholic Church, Ugbawka, Enugu State, Rev. Fr. Paul Offu, has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen. Fr. Offu was killed late Thursday at Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu. The Communication’s Director of the Catholic Diocese of Enugu, Rev. Fr. Benjamin Achi, has confirmed…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police have arrested two suspected fraudsters who impersonated officials of the Nigeria Customs Service auctioneers on Facebook and other social media sites. Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT ) who arrested the suspects have warned members of the public to be wary of fraudsters who…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Activities were brought to a halt Thursday morning as street boys popularly known as ‘area boys’ clashed with truck drivers at Coconut bus stop, Olodi-Apapa, Lagos. No fewer than four people were reported to have sustained injuries as a result of the fracas which an eye witness said was occurred as a result…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-An Engineering student of the Rivers State University was killed on Wednesday morning by suspected cultists along Ada George axis of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The student, who was said to be on his way to school, was found dead on the road with some machete cuts on his body….
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)- – Hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police in Liberia’s capital Monrovia on Wednesday during a march against corruption and economic mismanagement under former footballer turned president George Weah. Police fired tear gas to stop the demonstrators from approaching the parliament building in Monrovia, an AFP reporter at the scene said, while…
