LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ghanaian monarch says the Nigerian high commission in the country was aiding a businessman to forcibly take over the plot of land belonging to his people. Joy News, a Ghanaian platform, quoted Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, paramount chief of Osu traditional area, as saying the land is different from the…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has endorsed Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This is contained in a document signed by Mahamadou Issoufou, ECOWAS president, and seen by TheCable on Friday. On June 4, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the nomination of Okonjo-Iweala, former…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-John Bolton, a former United States national security adviser, has alleged that President Donald Trump once argued that the $1.5 billion annual aid given to Nigeria should be stopped. Bolton, in a book titled “In the Room Where It Happened”, alleged that the president also said funding for military operations in Afghanistan and…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSSRANGERS)-Sixteen socio-cultural leaders from southern Nigeria have instituted a suit against President Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly marginalising the people of the southern region from appointments in his administration. In the suit filed before a federal high court in Abuja, the plaintiffs led by Edwin Clark are asking the court to award the…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has emerged the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election in Edo State. Chairman of the APC Primary Election Committee and Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma disclosed this on Monday in Benin City, the state capital. Ize-Iyamu won the party’s primary after polling 27, 838 votes…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of a lady Nurse, Adetola Alao who boarded a bus from Bariga to Ebute Metta has declared her missing. Adetola Alao works as a Nurse at Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Ebute Metta, Lagos. Report in Fisayo Soyombo’s twitter handle disclosed that it is exactly a week when Adetola Alao boarded…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A factional acting National Charman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Victor Giadom, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disregard the ongoing governorship primary election in Edo State. He made the appeal in a letter addressed to the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, and received by the electoral umpire…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 22-year-old vulcanizer, Dele Ope, has been arrested for allegedly stealing an underwear belonging to a female customer at her home in Ogun state. A statement released by the Ogun state police command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the lady had called Ope to help fix her car’s deflated tyre in her house. However…