Archive for: June, 2020

Sexual Assault Conviction: Bill Cosby Wins The Right To Appeal

LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Bill Cosby has won the right to appeal his 2018 sexual assault conviction. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to review two aspects of the case that Cosby is challenging — the judge’s decision to allow prosecutors to call five other accusers and to introduce evidence that he’d given women Quaaludes in […]

Leadership Crisis: Police Seal Off APC National Secretariat, Abuja

LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, was on Tuesday sealed off by the police to forestall breakdown of law and order following leadership crisis rocking the party. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Police Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DSP. Anjuguri Manzah, confirmed the development. Manzah said that the […]

Legendary Nigeria Musician,Tuface Idibia Appointed New UNHCR Ambassador

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: How Flood Sweeps Away 18-Year-Old Girl Into Surulere Canal

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 […]

Edo PDP Primary Saga: No Cause For Alarm, Obaseki Assures Loyalists

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 […]

Edo 2020: Court Did Not Grant Prayer To Ban 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 […]

25-Year-Old Africa Top Football Striker Dies Of Malaria

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 […]

Covid-19: Saudi Arabia Bans 2020 Int’l Hajj Visitors, Forfeiting Over $4bn In Revenue

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 […]

Ex-Speaker Of Edo State House Of Assembly Dumps APC

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 […]

Love Scam:Police Rescue Abducted Philippine Lady Lured To Nigeria By Supposed Lover

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 […]

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