By Amos Akioma LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Patients suspected to be infected by Coronavirus in Bayelsa have bemoaned the delays in getting results from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) laboratories in Benin and Port Harcourt. Investigations indicate that worst affected are medical personnel with contact with confirmed cases who went into self isolation for…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Robert Farkas, the founding father of a cryptocurrency agency Centra Tech that raised greater than $25 million from its preliminary coin providing rip-off, pled responsible in a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Tuesday. The official assertion accused Farkas of conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud and ordered a sentence between 70…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Benin monarch Omo N’Oba Nedo Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Ewuare II on Thursday stated his position on political developments in Edo State. He is opposed to imposition (consensus candidate) and god-fatherism, a statement from Benin Palace said. The statement, signed by Frank Irabor, Secretary to the Benin Traditional Council, said there was no…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has described the re-election of Prof. Benedict Oramah as the President of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), as an obvious reward for hard work. In a press release on Thursday, Obi congratulated Prof. Benedict Oramah, saying that his…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government (FG) has suspended resumption of domestic flights formerly scheduled for Sunday, June 21. Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, announced the suspension at a Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja Thursday. The Minister who was represented by the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA),…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed that Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, has joined the party ahead of the September guber poll. THEWILL recalls that Obaseki on Monday announced his resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC), three days after, the party’s screening committee disqualified him from partaking in its primaries….
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The High Court of the FCT has reaffirmed and extended its order making Chief Victor Giadom, the acting National Chairman of the APC following the Appeal Court’s approval of the suspension of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole from the party and office. The High Court also ordered Comrade Mustapha Salihu, the party’s National Vice…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-French prosecutors on Wednesday requested a four-year jail term and a fine of 500,000 euros ($562,000) for Lamine Diack, the former IAAF president standing trial for corruption, money laundering and breach of trust. Prosecutors said that Diack, an 87-year-old Senegalese who led track and field’s governing body for nearly 16 years, directly…