LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After serving the country for 35 years, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Usman Baba and about 300 other senior police officers are to retire statutorily today. Baba clocked 35 years in service on March 1, 2023 and will be 60 years old today. However, Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi, said in January…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian politicians will soon start decamping from their respective political parties to the Labour Party, Aisha Yesufu has confirmed. The social media critic and activist stated, via a post on Twitter, that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party will win the February election, a sign which is now glaring to other…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ghanaian clergyman, Rev. Dr. Kwadwo Bempah, has described Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate as a man who set a pace for other politicians in Africa. The clergyman who stated this during a sermon in his church noted that Nigerians don’t need to conduct election but should rather hand-pick Obi…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A mob on Monday set two suspected ritualists ablaze for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl to death in Ede-Oballa, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. An eyewitness from the community, who pleaded anonymity, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident had thrown the community into sorrow. According to…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in the Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State has been set ablaze by hoodlums. According to a statement released Monday and signed by INEC’s National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, the attack on the office happened at 11:48pm on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kwara State Fire Service said on Wednesday that it rescued about 13 coaches of a north-bound train from burning by fire in the Offa area on Tuesday. The train which was coming from Lagos was reportedly set ablaze by some hoodlums when it had a stop-over for repairs at the Offa…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ex-Nigerian international Yakubu Adamu has been arrested in Germany for allegedly setting a house in Chemnitz on fire, according to a report by Bild (via Germany-in24). Adamu, who spent a year in the Bundesliga with St. Pauli in the early 2000s, is believed to have committed the crime after he was seen…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former minister of finance and the frontrunner in the WTO DG race, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is set to be named the new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after South Korea reportedly decided to withdraw its Trade Minister, Yoo Myung-hee from the race. According to the Washington Trade Daily, Seoul is…