LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram fighters on Monday invaded a first generation bank in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, destroying property and carting away cash. An eyewitness said the insurgents came through the mountains to attack the town, causing pandemonium as people ran in different directions to escape being shot. A resident, Emmanuel…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government on Tuesday revealed its plan to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) up to 50 percent. This is even as the upper chamber of the National Assembly approved N30, 000 as new minimum wage. The planned upward review of the Value Added Tax up to 50 percent was disclosed…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Tuesday, March 19, observed a minute silence in honour of Nigerian-born Prof. Pius Adesanmi and Amb. Abiodun Bashua, who both died in the ill-fated Ethiopian Airline plane that crashed two weeks ago. Prof. Adesamni and Amb. Bashua, as well as other passengers, died on March 10 when the Boeing…
By Olawale Rasheed LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian democratic experiment has passed through several phases.The turbulence of the polity can be demoralizing and the contestation can be truly ungodly.In the brickbat of power struggle at times emerged shining light to which all political warlords embrace even when they share different political orientations.The September 2018 governorship election…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has put a lie to the rumour going round that he is at present in Kano and meddling in the Kano elections. “Asiwaju is not in Kano and has not been in Kano at any point during the conduct of these elections. The picture…
LAGOS MARH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed the U.S. government’s authority to detain immigrants awaiting deportation anytime – potentially even years – after they have completed prison terms for criminal convictions, handing President Donald Trump a victory as he pursues hardline immigration policies. The court ruled 5-4 along ideological lines, with its conservative…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a rush to beat the 21 days deadline provided by the Electoral Act, lawyers to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Monday evening, stormed the tribunal to lodge a petition against President Muhammadu Buhari. The Independent National Electoral Commission had on February 27, declared…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Three-year-old survival of the recent building collapse at Ita Faji on Lagos Island, Kabiru Sasore, Monday said he is afraid of going to school again. He said he was eating in his class when he suddenly heard a loud sound, thinking it was a bomb. “I was eating in my class…