LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Legendary Nigerian musician, Innocent ‘Tuface’ Idibia has been appointed as the new United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ambassador. The singer on Tuesday took to his Instagram page announcing his appointment. According to him, the appointment will deepen his commitment to supporting the efforts of UNHCR. His post read: “I am…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Aishatu Saidi, an 18-year-old girl, has died after flood from one of the major canals in the Alapafuja area of Surulere, Lagos State, carried her away. The incident was said to have happened on Monday. According to Ganiyatu Saidi, mother of the deceased, her late daughter had joined her in cooking rice, which…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Godwin Obaseki has admonished his supporters not to lose sleep over latest developments in the Edo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying he will participate in the governorship primaries slated for Thursday, June 25. A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State had stopped Governor Godwin Obaseki…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has refused to bar Godwin Obaseki, the Edo State Governor, from participating in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election slated for Thursday. Mr Obaseki was granted a waiver by the PDP recently after he joined the opposition party from the All Progressives…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the top strikers in the Togolese first division, Kossi Koudagba of ASC Kara, has died of malaria aged 25. Koudagba had finished top striker in Togo for two years in a row and won the league in 2019. Before he won the best striker title with the second-tier club Espoir…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia has barred Muslims around the world from traveling to the kingdom to compete the Hajj pilgrimage this year, a decision that will see it lose billions in revenue. “It has been decided that Hajj for this year will be held whereby a very limited number of pilgrims from various nationalities…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past Speaker of the Edo Assembly, Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Adjoto, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Benin, said that he took the decision after deeply consulting…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Enugu State have rescued a 40-year-old lady from the Philippines, Irene Torento Panas, who was lured to Nigeria by a 54-year-old man named Chukwudi Odo. The woman was rescued six months after arriving Nigeria from her country in an apparent but unsuccessful search for love. Panas, an accountant by…