http://ift.tt/2z9exk3 LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Over a tonne of cocaine was found on board a Roll-on/Roll-off (RORO) cargo ship named Agat which was intercepted in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean by the Portuguese authorities in an operation aimed at curbing illicit drug trafficking by sea. Namely, the Portuguese drug enforcement agency, in cooperation with the…
http://ift.tt/2yrayCx LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The organised labour in Kogi state says it has suspended discussion with government on the ongoing strike following the gruesome murder of a labour leader Mallam Abdulmumuni Yakubu in Okene yesterday. The Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress , Comrade Onuh Edoka and his TUC counterpart Comrade Ranti Matthew Ojo gave the…
http://ift.tt/2AchIrf LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWRANGERS)-Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the senior Special Assistant to the President Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora said on Thursday that there were about 500 Nigerians in Chinese prisons detained for various offences. Dabiri-Erewa made this known on the side line of an international seminar on Nigeria-China relations in Abuja. She also refuted…
http://ift.tt/2zaxYvb LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Nigerian journalists were killed this year while 12 others suffered various forms of assaults, the International Press Centre (IPC) has alleged. In a statement signed by its director, Lanre Arogundade, to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, he called for “urgent justice for all attacked…
http://ift.tt/2iqx6IJ Monday Ubani, second Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Monday Ubani, second Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday declared that the performance of All Progressives Congress (APC) as a ruling party has been a disaster. He added that majority of APC members were against President Muhammadu Buhari’s…
http://ift.tt/2ipJsR8 LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWRANGERS)-The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has left Nigeria for London, where he would be meeting his late son’s wife and children who reside in the United Kingdom. Tinubu was said to have departed Lagos barely 48 hours after his son, Jide, was pronounced dead by…
http://ift.tt/2h5wFa5 LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said that there will not be automatic ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari for the 2019 presidential election. But he said that it is the constitutional right of the President to seek the mandate of the party for his re-election. Okorocha said that all processes…
http://ift.tt/2h6CC6r LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Tanzania’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said on Thursday at least 34 people have been sentenced to death by hanging during for killing people with albinism in the country. Beatrice Mpembo, a state attorney from the DPP, told a two-day consultative meeting to strategise on countering brutality and…