Archive for: May, 2020

SERAP Drags Wike, FG To ECOWAS Court Over Human Rights Violations Of Rivers’ People

LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has launched legal action against Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari at the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over the “brutal crackdown, repression, and grave violations and abuses of the human rights of the people of Rivers […]

Rivers Govt, EFCC Tangle Over Allegation Of Rivers Officials Withdrawal Of N118bn

LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Rivers State government and he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  are throwing counter allegations as the anti-graft agency  is requesting for the interrogation and the release of three officials of the Rivers State Government, who are implicated in the alleged illegal withdrawal of N118billion public funds. Their action is said […]

Nigeria Govs Protest As Buhari Signs Financial Autonomy For Assemblies, Judiciary

LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari may have pulled a fast one on state governors with Friday’s signing of  Executive Order No. 10 of 2020 which grants financial autonomy to  State legislature and the judiciary. Many governors were left shocked by the president’s action coming so soon after the financial autonomy granted local governments by […]

South African To Ease Lockdown From June 1st By Opening Up The Economy

LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS) – President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday a further easing of South Africa’s coronavirus lockdown from June 1, allowing the vast majority of the economy to return to full capacity. Africa’s most industrialised economy has been largely shut down since late March, when the government enforced severe restrictions to stem the […]

The Foistering Of Almajiris By Northern Nigerian On Southern Nigeria, A Case Of The Later Wanting To Eat Her Cake And Have It

By  Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS MAY 23RD  (NEWSRANGERS)-With utmost dismay , exasperation and disbelieve  I  have watched  and seen  several video clips,  and pictures on the social media and I have read several newspaper  publications and listen to   several   radio and television Broadcast  of how trailers loaded with hundreds  of ALMAJIRIS enter into the […]

Eid-el-Fitr: Sultan Declares Sunday As Sallah Day

LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigeria Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has declared Sunday, May 24, 2020, as the first day of Shawwal 1441 after Hijrah, and as such, the Eid-el-Fitr. The Sultan revealed this in a statement signed by the chairman advisory committee on religious […]

UKCourt Dismisses Nigeria’s $1bn Malabu Suit Against Shell, Eni, Denied Appeal

LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A UK court has ruled that Nigeria’s $1 billion suit against Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, oil giants, cannot go on because it does not have jurisdiction over the case. Justice Christopher Butcher gave the ruling at a virtual hearing on Friday, setting back the long standing trial on the Malabu oil […]

Bank President, One Other Passenger Survive Pakistan Plane Crash

LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A bank executive and at least one other passenger have been pulled alive from the wreckage of an Airbus A320 which crashed after an engine failure in Pakistan today with 98 people on board.  Bank of Punjab president Zafar Masood was dragged from the smoking debris of the Pakistan International Airlines flight after […]

Deserted Soldier, Others Kill Undergraduate Over N800k

LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A soldier and other suspects have confessed to killing a 22-year-old undergraduate, Micah Isiah, after collecting N800,000 in his account, so that “our image will not be dented.” Our correspondent learnt that Isiah was a student of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri. One of the suspects, Ifeanyi Nwaiwu of the Nigerian […]

Lockdown: Trump Over Rides Govs’ Order, Declares Places Of Worship Open

LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump announced Friday that all houses of worship would be considered “essential services” and urged governors to “do the right thing” and reopen them immediately — adding that he would “override” them if they didn’t. “Today, I am identifying houses of worship, churches, synagogues, and mosques, as essential places that provide […]

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