LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRAMGERS)-Tension has engulfed Yala and Ogoja local government areas of Cross River State following the arrival of two trailers loaded with Fulani herdsmen. The youth leader of Okuku in Yala local government area of the State, Joseph Odey Owonah said the Fulanis came into the communities on Sunday in two trucks loaded…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Police said it smashed two gun running and arms dealing ring and a gang of robbers and kidnappers in the Benue-Taraba axis, making 11 arrests. Among the suspects arrested was one Miracle Emmanuel, a 27-year-old gun dealer from Anambra State based in Takum, Taraba State. With his three-man gang, the…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 1,500 demonstrators were arrested overnight in Russia after people took to the streets protesting Vladimir Putin’s government. The protests were organized by a leader who was barred from running in the election. Navalny called on people demonstrate in nearly a hundred cities across the world’s largest country to convey…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 45 people died in an attack on a village in northern Nigeria, a police official told Reuters on Sunday, the latest in a string of incidents underscoring insecurity in parts of the country. President Muhammadu Buhari won Nigeria’s 2015 elections partly on promises to bring security to Africa’s largest economy…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kogi State Chief Judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah, has granted an interim order for Senator Dino Melaye to be transferred to the National Hospital Abuja, while hearing for his bail conditions will be heard on Monday, next week. The Chief Judge gave the order at the High Court in Lokoja, on Friday…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Benue State have urged members of the public to disregard the information being circulated that four mosques were set ablaze in Makurdi metropolis by some hoodlums. Also, the police said a similar information being circulated that another church was attacked by bandits at Agana village in Mbaloh Ward of…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Wednesday stopped plenary to visit Sen. Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi) at National Hospital, Abuja, to ascertain his health condition. This followed a point of order by Sen. Sam Anyanwu (PDP-Imo) at plenary. Melaye, who sustained injury during his arrest by security operatives on Tuesday, was earlier taken to Zankli Hospital,…
LAGOS APRIL25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have handcuffed Senator Dino Melaye to a hospital bed at the National Hospital, Abuja. Our correspondent gathered on Wednesday that visitors were also not allowed to see the embattled senator, who was forcefully evacuated by the police from a private medical facility, Zankli Hospital and taken to the National Hospital, where…