LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Sacked Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Toyin Ogundipe, has dropped a lawsuit he filed at the National Industrial Court to challenge his sacking by the varsity’s Governing Council. The suit, marked NICN/LA/278/2020, had as defendants: UNILAG; the varsity’s Council; its Senate; Pro-Chancellor, Dr Wale Babalakin (SAN); Registrar, Oladejo Azeez; and […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A brake failure has caused a jet to run into a fence at the General Aviation Terminal of the Lagos Airport on Friday. In the latest accident, the King Air Jet was reparking when the driver rammed into the fence, according to an eyewitness. The jet had no passenger on board with […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-On Friday, August 21, the United Nations(UN) said it had gained access to Mali’s ousted president while rebel troops said they had released two other detained leaders, in developments that followed mounting international pressure on the new junta. “Last night, a team from MINUSMA Human Rights went to Kati in the framework […]
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) rejects out rightly the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 that was assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari recently. By implications, he has repealed the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990 (1). The law, to say the least is unacceptable, ungodly, reprehensible and […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt has slammed 10 years imprisonment on 47-year-old, Lois Obazi, a US-based woman for child trafficking. Obazi had in 2018 disguised in a quasi-name, ‘Precious Obasi’ living around Omehia School Road, Igwuruta community in the Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, at the time of her […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Madagascar has sacked its Minister of Health, Ahmad Ahmad as coronavirus spreads in the country. This is coming a month after Ahmad had a problem with the President for seeking outside help for coronavirus. Madagascar saw COVID-19 cases rise in July despite an official campaign to promote a controversial herbal drink touted […]
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government says it will enforce the principle of reciprocity in granting permission to airlines to resume operations into the country as the Nigerian airspace reopens for international flights on August 29. Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika stated this on Thursday during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman has been rescued from a septic tank three days after a man who stole her baby from her threw her in there. The nursing mother named Mrs Chizoba Eke was pulled out alive but injured from the septic tank of an uncompleted building located at Igwuruta, Ikwerre Local Government Area, […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Crowds rejoiced after a group of colonels seized power in Mali, a vast country stretching into the Sahara, where troops – including French soldiers and UN peacekeepers – are fighting jihadist groups, but not everyone is happy, writes West Africa analyst Paul Melly. Negotiations are rumoured to be under way for the […]
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-African and Western leaders condemned on Wednesday the junta that forced Mali’s president from power, warning the coup was a deep setback for the West African nation that could threaten the battle against Islamic extremism. Soldiers calling themselves the National Committee for the Salvation of the People promised that they would ultimately […]
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