LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal by the main opposition candidate to overturn the result of February’s presidential election in which Muhammadu Buhari was returned to office. Atiku Abubakar lodged his initial complaint with the country’s election tribunal, which ruled against him last month. Tuesday’s decision is likely to end…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty angry strippers marched to a police station in Thailand’s Pattaya on Tueday to complain that they had not been paid for the last two weeks. The women from the Walking Street strip of clubs in Thailand’s ‘Sin City’ of Pattaya – dubbed the sex capital of the world – were furious…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS-Ziniaré (Burkina Faso) (AFP) – Five years after the people of Burkina Faso rose up against Blaise Compaore, chasing him out of the nation he ruled with an iron fist for 27 years, dire living conditions are prompting nostalgia for the old days. “Before, there were projects, work, businesses,” said Maurice Iboudo,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS) — Police in the South African city of Cape Town used water cannons Wednesday while dispersing and arresting hundreds of foreigners, including children, who have camped for weeks outside the U.N. refugee agency’s office. Some of the refugees and asylum-seekers told local media they are seeking to be relocated outside the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socialist Republic of Vietnam yesterday begged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to appeal to the Federal Government to allow its country import rice to Nigeria at discounted rates. It was noted that the Deputy Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Vuong Dinh Hue, made the appeal in Abuja…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chevron is getting set to Leave Nigeria. Chevron is seeking to sell several Nigerian oilfields as part of a global drive to reshape its portfolio as it focuses on growing its U.S. shale output, banking and industry sources said. Chevron joins rivals including Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell in a drive…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has dragged the State House of Assembly to court over the probe of his administration’s procurement of 820 buses worth N7 billion for public transport. A Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Tuesday ordered the assembly’s speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, to appear before it. Justice Y.A….
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Paris Saint-Germain will be reportedly prepared to sell Neymar back to Barcelona for a fee of £199m next summer. The Brazilian, who moved to the Parc des Princes for a world record sum of £198m in 2017, pushed hard for a return to the Camp Nou over the summer transfer window. However,…