LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Minister for Aviation, Dr. Kema Chikwe, has said that from her long experience in politics, it is difficult dealing with politicians except a few of them that had conscience like the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi. “In the case…
LAGOS DECEMBE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo State Police Command has arrested a 37-year-old commercial motorcyclist for allegedly raping a 34-year-old woman and beheading the victim’s five-year-old son. The state Commissioner of Police, Shina Olukolu, made the disclosure on Friday while addressing newsmen at the headquarters of the command in Eleyele, Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has maintained that his administration is strongly in support of the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari for a forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), noting that the state ranks highest in the commission’s abandoned project list. Obaseki said this when he received…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)- Elder statesman and former Chief of Army Staff, Gen Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), has come under fire over his recent comment on the state of the nation. Gen. Danjuma, who was a former Defense Minister, had claimed while speaking at the University of Ibadan in Oyo State, on Thursday, that Nigerians won’t…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The West African Economic and Monetary Union has agreed with France to a number of changes to the CFA franc currency, including a new name, Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara said Saturday, as the West African bloc inches closer to a split from the French-backed currency. The monetary union will move its…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon’s parliament granted special status on Friday to two English-speaking regions to try to calm a separatist insurgency that has killed 2,000 people, but the separatists said only independence would satisfy them. The law, passed in a special session of parliament, says the Anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions “benefit from a special…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Five people suspected of burning down four mosques in Ethiopia’s Amhara region were arrested on Saturday, a regional spokesman said, as rising inter-communal and ethnic violence threatens political reforms initiated by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. “Five people who are suspected of leading and organizing the attacks have now been arrested,” Getnet Yirsaw,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) said it uncovered abandoned power station components worth $34 million. The NDDC’s acting executive director of projects, Cairo Ojougboh, made this known in a statement released on Thursday, December 19, Channels TV reports. Ojougboh said the power station components were…