LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations, UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, has indicted both Nigeria and Kenya Governments for the arrest and extraordinary rendition, torture and continued detention of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, without due process. UN therefore, asked Nigerian Government to, “immediate…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) strongly condemns today’s raid of online newspaper, Peoples Gazette’s office in Abuja and the subsequent arrest of five journalists by armed policemen. According to news reports, the policemen forcefully entered the media office and demanded to see managing editor, Samuel Ogundipe and a reporter…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The terrorists that attacked the Abuja-Kaduna bound AK9 train on March, 28 have released another set of seven hostages in their custody after more than 100 days in captivity in the forest, The PUNCH reports. Malam Tukur Mamu, one of the negotiators and Media Consultant to the controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mike Ogiasa, a cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan has begged for his release. Ogiasa served as Bayelsa Commissioner for Special Duties in charge of Federal Projects, and Special Adviser on Power. The engineer was kidnapped at Otuogidi in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa on June 2. Ogiasa was seized…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Media Consultant to Sheikh Ahmad Gumi and ‘Dan Iyan Fika, Malam Tukur Mamu has said that 11 kidnapped train passengers have been released on Saturday by the terrorists. Vanguard had earlier reported how Mamu acted as middle man and lead negotiator between the Federal Government and the terrorists who they trusted…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has been released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in a N174 billion fraud, The PUNCH can confirm. Idris was released on bail from the custody of the anti-graft agency on Wednesday night in Abuja…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen who abducted dozens of train passengers in northern Nigeria have released one of the hostages – a heavily pregnant woman. In a video message circulating on social media, the woman said the abductors told her she had been freed on “compassionate grounds”. She was among those kidnapped in March when armed…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tension has gripped residents of some parts of Sokoto State as protesters trooped to the streets demanding the release of suspects arrested over the killing of Deborah Samuel in the state. DAILY POST recalls that Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was killed on Thursday over…