LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Senatorial candidate and leader of All Progressives Congress APC in Edo Central Senatorial district Edo State, Chief Francis Inegbeniki, has insisted that Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu remains the chosen and consensus governorship candidate of the party ahead of the September 19 governorship election in Edo State. It will be recalled that last…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, yesterday presented his All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship nomination form to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Commenting on the feud between him and the National Chairman of his party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, in an interaction with State House Correspondents, Obaseki said he was…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian reggae icon, Majek Fashek, is dead, his former backup singer, Monica Omorodion Swaida, has revealed. Writing in a Facebook post on Tuesday morning (Nigerian time), Monica, who is based in the US said: “I have been getting phone calls and text messages. How news flies. “It is true. I didn’t want…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-While the family of Uwa Omozuwa Has been mourning the death of their 22 year old beloved daughter, A Facebook man reacting to the death of the 100 level Microbiology student of UNIBEN, left a comment that is believe to be a clue as to the motive behind the actions that led…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump late Monday threatened to mobilize the U.S. military to keep the peace across the nation, following days of violent protests and minutes after federal police charged a crowd of peaceful demonstrators to clear a path for a presidential photo op. Speaking at the Rose Garden of the White House,…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Monday 1st of June 2020, announced that 416 new confirmed cases and 12 deaths have been recorded in Nigeria. This is the second-highest daily figure recorded by the centre after it announced 553 confirmed cases on Saturday 30th May 2020, since the outbreak of…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced a technician, Rasak Abiona, to death for beating his 62-year-old father to death with an iron rod during a dispute over property in Lagos. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo delivered the judgment in a virtual hearing. Justice Taiwo held that though the prosecution had presented circumstantial evidence…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The UK and Canada have opposed Russia’s return to the G7, deepening a rift over US President Donald Trump’s wish for the country to rejoin. Mr Trump said on Saturday he would postpone the G7 summit scheduled to take place this month until September. The president said the G7’s “outdated group of…