http://ift.tt/2kEv0cN IGP Idris LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Policemen attached to bullion van ran for their dear lives when they were accosted by dare devil armed robbers along the the Benin-Asaba expressway. Eyewitness said the robbers numbering about ten had ambushed the van along the busy Asaba-Benin-Onitsha expressway and after chasing away the security escort accompanying the…
http://ift.tt/2BloK11 LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brenda Nwanguma, a worker with Inner City Mission for Children, under the Christ Embassy Church canopy, is threatening to drag the church and Pastor Kenechukwu Kanu, aka Kaycee, to court. Nwanguma, a member of the Christ Embassy Church, is demanding for justice in respect of alleged work place harassment, intimidation, blackmail…
http://ift.tt/2iICSWK LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted another shipment of dried weeds suspected to be cannabis sativa concealed in building materials. The drug packed in four hundred and nine bags with a total weight of 7,073kg was ingeniously concealed in a consignment of building…
http://ift.tt/2kakLZY LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released proposed dates for the 2019 general elections. The votes begin in about 434 days in Africa’s most populated country. Chairman of the agency, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said vote for Presidential and National Assembly Elections will hold on February 16, 2019 while the Governorship,…
http://ift.tt/2AnlXnB LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three contestants for the position of Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have quit the race. Those who quit the race Chief Bode George, Raymond Dokpesi and Jimi Agbaje. The announcement of Dokpesi and Agbaje came few hours after Chief Olabode George, quite the race. George had cited the failure of…
http://ift.tt/2A4GoBz An African migrant living in Greece raises his chained hands during a protest Saturday in Athens against recent reports of migrant slavery in Libya. (Costas Baltas/Reuters/) LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After years of ignoring the sale of human beings in Libya, leaders from Europe and Africa have been making a grand show of shock and…
http://ift.tt/2nLfa14 Buhari and Biya LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria called for an end to violence in neighbouring Cameroon, where a crisis sparked by a separatist drive in English-speaking areas has forced thousands of people to seek sanctuary across the border. “The Nigerian state by no means supports the secessionists,” Nigerian ambassador Lawan Abba Gashagar said Thursday,…
http://ift.tt/2kBcZvZ FILE PHOTO LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An explosion at an illegal refinery, also known as “Kpofire”, on Thursday, has left scores dead along Kolo Creek in Okaki, a boundary community between Rivers and Bayelsa states. A source told journalists that the incident, which occurred in the early hours, was on account of combustion from the…