LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of persons have been rendered homeless, following late night fire outbreak that burnt houses in Egwurugwu Street in Rumueprirkom Community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that the fire, which started at about 9pm eve of Christmas, was allegedly caused by a mentally deranged woman resident in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) said it uncovered abandoned power station components worth $34 million. The NDDC’s acting executive director of projects, Cairo Ojougboh, made this known in a statement released on Thursday, December 19, Channels TV reports. Ojougboh said the power station components were…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Nyesom Wike yesterday expressed concern that the capitulation of the Peoples Democratic Party in neighbouring Bayelsa by the All Progressives Congress (APC) portends danger for Rivers State. He said with the defeat of the Governor Seriake Dickson-led PDP in Bayelsa, it was apparent that the “next onslaught of the APC would…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-ENERGY giant, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), has been honoured for providing opportunities to talented secondary school students in the Niger Delta to participate in the United Nation’s Model Conferences in the United States of America. Founder and Country Director of Future Trust Initiatives, Dr. Maureen Egbuche, announced…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Passengers and Seafarers traveling to Bille Community in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State are now stranded following the boycott of Port Harcourt-Gbile waterways route by boat owners after a brutal attack in the community by pirates. The Bille Community was attacked by fully armed pirates on Saturday, killing two persons…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom receives not less than 90 billion pound shady funds from across the world every year, most of them stolen by public officials from Third World countries, including but not limited to Nigeria, foreign experts said in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday. The experts said 87,000 illicit assets in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected sea pirates have abducted two policemen in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State. The victims were abducted yesterday from a passenger boat they had boarded from Ngo, headquarters of Andoni. It was gathered that the policemen had boarded the boat at the jetty to the new road, Ogoni – Andoni-Opobo-Nkoro…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A notorious kidnapper in Rivers state, Brown Ike Ekwueme (a k a Lucifer), has been killed by men of the state Police command on Monday. The spokesman of the police in the state, Nnamdi Omoni who broke the news in a statement in Port Harcourt the state capital last night said, Ekweme…