LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN), has said it lost more than 8,370 members, including eight Pastors, to the Boko Haram Insurgency in the North East. Rev. Joel Billi, who gave the statistics on Thursday, at the World News Conference, organised by the Dominion, in Yola, said 25,000 members of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some unknown gunmen are reported to have Monday night, kidnapped the Director Litigation, Ministry of Justice in Adamawa state, Samuel Yaumande, a Principal and 3 others at Sangare, near Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH) Yola. According to a family source, the gunmen invaded the residence of the Director around 9:15 pm,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs has budgeted N360m for the “specialised education programme” of the Chibok girls rescued by the Federal Government. This implies that N3.3m was budgeted for each of the rescued 106 schoolgirls. The information is contained in the 2020 budget proposal which was submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A joint committee of information technology and legal experts has claimed to have incontrovertible evidence that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) installed and deployed servers in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The groups, Deservation and Pukka Initiative, made the revelation in Yola on Thursday night, showing a document,…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A joint operation of security agencies, including National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Saturday, stormed semi-Sambisa, a den of criminal gan in Yola, and arrested fifty two drug peddlers. Yakubu Kibo, Adamawa State NDLEA Commander, confirmed the arrest and paraded the suspects Sunday afternoon, saying, “a joint operation comprising NDLEA, Army,…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) , Atiku Abubakar has disowned campaign posters titled “The Pukka’’ that festooned some of the major streets of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. Atiku disowned the posters in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Mr. Paul Ibe, Wednesday. Pukka, an…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Force Headquarters has ordered the arrest and prosecution of 190 riot policemen who absconded from the ongoing training at the Special Forces School, Buni-Yadi, Yobe State. The fleeing policemen were part of the 2,000 Police Mobile Officers mobilised for the training preparatory to their deployment for combat against Boko Haram insurgents…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 25H (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari, Olusegun Obasanjo and Senate President Bukola Saraki among others have congratulated PDP Presidential candidate in 2019 election for having been formally turbaned as the seventh Waziri of Adamawa Emirate. In his remarks, President Muhammadu Buhari, represented by the FCT Minister, Alhaji Musa Bello, congratulated Atiku for the esteemed position…