LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Police operatives from Area D, Idimu, Lagos, have arrested a 22-year old adopted son, Gideon Elias, for allegedly attempting to eliminate his mother, Mrs. Charity Elias and her daughters in order to inherit the family property having realized that he was not the biological child of the family. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s six legacy ports, Apapa; Tin Can Island; Calabar; Warri; Port Harcourt and Onne Ports are facing existential threat from the newly operational Lekki Deep Sea port, Business Hallmark can report. The six ports, findings revealed, have continued to lose experienced hands, as well as high value customers to the more modern…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Arise TV anchor, Rufai Oseni has recieved a death threat from an anonymous group recently. This was made known on Arise TV ‘The Morning Show’ by Rufai’s colleugue, Ojy Okpe on the ‘Whats Trending’ part of the morning show. Reading straight from a displayed post made by a “Anonymous Collective” page on…
LAGOS MARCH 21STH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services, DSS, has apprehended an inmate described as “a slim young man” after a major operation at the Kirikiri prison in Apapa, Lagos. DAILY POST exclusively reported how a large number of officers stormed the penitentiary last week in search of the fellow threatening one of the Vice…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China said Wednesday it will take measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the American East Coast. At a daily briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin gave no details and did not identify the targets of the measures. China says the balloon was a…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on new naira re-design and naira swap policy has added a new twist to the controversy surrounding the deadline for the validity of old notes by rejecting the ten days extension granted by the Central Bank of Nigeria for the exchange. The committee described the extension…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Violent attacks targeting Nigeria’s election commission offices are raising concerns about the security of the West African country’s upcoming elections in February. In the latest attack, assailants in southeastern Imo state set fire on Sunday to an office of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission. Nearly 50 of the commission’s offices already…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of a Nigerian oil workers’ union are threatening to go on strike if the government does not do more to stem widespread oil theft they say is putting their safety at risk and has cut exports by hundreds of thousands of barrels. Workers with the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff…
