LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services (DSS) has succumbed to pressure by releasing the passport of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero. The DSS had seized the labour leader’s phones and passport following his arrest and detention which spanned several hours, in Abuja on Monday. SaharaReporters on Monday…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Hamas released two more hostages on Monday, identified by Israeli officials as Nurit Cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz, just days after releasing two American women on Friday. Cooper and Lifshitz were abducted from their homes in Kibbutz Nir Oz, a small Israeli community near the Gaza border that came under attack on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hamas has released what is believed to be the first video of an Israeli hostage kidnapped during its surprise incursion on Oct. 7. “Hi, I’m Mia Shem, 21 years old from Shoham. Currently, I’m in Gaza,” the young woman says in Hebrew, according to The Jerusalem Post. “I returned early Saturday morning…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger authorities freed a French citizen who has been detained for almost a week, France’s foreign ministry said. Stephane Jullien, who acts as a representative for French expatriates in Niger and as a liaison to French diplomatic services, was released on Wednesday, according to a statement issued by the ministry on…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has released the portfolios for the 45 confirmed ministerial nominees with former Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike in charge of the Ministry of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Festus Keyamo manning the Ministry of Aviation. Other ministers are Wale Edun (Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy), Adegboyega Oyetola…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia’s most powerful mercenary group, Wagner, sent at least 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war back to Ukrainian forces to mark Orthodox Easter, according to a video posted by the group’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on Sunday. “Prepare all of them, feed and water them, check the wounded,” Prigozhin was shown saying in a…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s federal government has released the sum of N15 billion for the repatriation of Internally Displaced Nigerians from the three neighbouring countries. The internally displaced persons (IDPs) were those who flee to the neighbouring countries of Chad, Cameroon ans Niger at the height of Biko Haram and other terrorists activities in the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos has approved the release of 104 inmates from various prison facilities across the the State. This is contained in a statement issued by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo on Friday. The statement said Sanwo-Olu, on the recommendation of the Advisory Council on the…