LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23, 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has felicitated with Governors Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and Samuel Ortom of Benue State, both of whom won re-election during last Saturday’s supplementary governorship elections. “These victories, which I expected and which are…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suleiman Adamu, the Minister for Water Resources, has said Nigeria is set to become the world’s most notorious country in open defecation. Adamu stated this on Saturday while speaking on the theme: ‘Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Sustained Development’ at the 3rd Founder’s Day ceremony of Edo University, Iyamho. The minister, represented…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) marks a momentous milestone for Africa but preliminary findings of the upcoming 2019 African Regional Integration Index, released at the on-going Conference of Ministers in Morocco on Saturday, indicate that regional integration in Africa remains low. The Index, known as ARII, was set up to…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Management of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) Nnewi, Anambra state has handed over five (5) of its junior staff to the Nigerian Police for investigation and prosecution for allegedly defrauding the Institution of Fifteen Million (N15M) by manipulating its Automated Billing and Account Method. Four staff of consulting firm for…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari says he believes in the will of the people and cannot put pressure on voters to elect leaders they do not like. Buhari’s statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday, dismissed insinuations that he is forcing voters to elect candidates other…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The New Zealand Police are investigating death threat sent to Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, on social media, local media reported on Friday. A Twitter post containing a photo of a gun and caption “You are next’’ was sent to the prime minister. The post had been up for over 48 hours before the…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja assented to Engineers (Registration etc) Amendment Bill, 2019, which among others, bars the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from henceforth, posting graduates of engineering to secondary schools to teach. The bill which has now become the Act of the National Assembly seeks to promote technological development in…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-A priest was stabbed during a live-streamed morning mass Friday at Canada’s biggest church, Saint Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, police said. The suspect was arrested at the Roman Catholic basilica shortly after the attack in front of 50 people and a television audience around 8:40 am (1240 GMT), while priest Claude Grou was…