LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has advised the new Archbishop of Abuja Metropolitan See, Most Rev. Dr. Ignatius Kaigama, to continue with his policy of nurturing the spirituality of the people as well as implementing the social teachings of the Church….
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Omoyele Sowore, the convener of #RevolutionNow and publisher of Sahara Reporters has eventually regained his freedom, 125 days after being detained by the Department of State Services (DSS), Also set free is Olawale Adebayo Bakare (aka Mandate) who was arrested in Osun State during a #RevolutionNow protest. Both released on bail are…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lawyers of the former governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, have concluded arrangements to file a stay of execution and bail pending appeal on his behalf following his conviction over charges of N7.2 billion fraud brought against him and two others by the Economic…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man was burnt to death on Thursday after a pastor mistook petrol for water during a healing service in Lagos, the emergency services said. “The pastor picked a keg believing it contained water not knowing it was filled with petrol,” said Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency. “In the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two women were seeing weeping as a Federal High Court, Lagos sentenced former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu to 12 years in prison on Thursday. The court convicted Kalu to spend 12 years in jail on 39 counts bordering on N7.2 billion fraud and money laundering. While being taken out of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United Kingdom court on Thursday dismissed the application by some leaders of Ejamah Ebubu community in Ogoniland to register the judgment of a Nigerian Federal High Court in the country for enforcement. Claimants had applied to register the judgement to enforce a N183 billion judgment sum, which they claimed was the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In almost one-third of countries, fewer than five per cent of adults aged 15 and above participate in education and learning programmes, according to UNESCO’s fourth Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE 4).Adults with disabilities, older adults, refugees and migrants, minority groups and other disadvantaged segments of society are particularlyunder-represented…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Atiku Abubakar has stormed the national assembly today to add his voice to an important discuss during at a public hearing. According to Punch, he is at the Senate as one of the stakeholders at a public hearing on a bill for the conversion of the Modibbo Adama University of Technology to…