Archive for: August, 2020

Mutiny: Anti Govt Protesters Celebrate As Soldiers Detain Mali President, PM, Others

LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and top government officials were detained on Tuesday in a mutiny by soldiers in the capital Bamako. Keita’s detention at his residence in southwestern Bamako followed hours of uncertainty after soldiers mutinied in the morning at the Kati military base outside Bamako and rounded up a number […]

Annulled Bayelsa Election: INEC Accuses ANDP Of Submitting Invalid Nomination

LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has made a stunning revelation about the Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party (ANDP) which made the Bayelsa Election Tribunal annul last year’s election. Festus Okoye, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, said the party’s nomination for the election was invalid. He also said […]

Chairman News Agency Of Nigeria Passes On In Abuja

LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Malam Wada Maida, Chairman, Board of Directors of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), is dead. A member of his family, Lawal Sale Maida, said Maida died in Abuja on Monday. He was aged 70. He was not ill when he died Monday night. He went to the office as usual in […]

Bizarre Rants: I’ll Seek A Third Term After My Second Term-Trump

LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With the political world focused on the Democratic convention Monday night, President Trump looked to steal some of the limelight by saying that he will seek a third term if he wins reelection. During a rally in Wisconsin, the president lied to a cheering crowd, telling them that he deserves eight additional […]

Diri To Appeal Judgment Nullifying Bayelsa Governor Election

LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Governor, Mr Douye Diri, will appeal Monday’s ruling of the governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja, which nullified his election. Diri said he has, consequently, instructed his lawyers to file the necessary papers. He spoke shortly after the tribunal ruled that the Independent National Electoral Commission wrongly excluded […]

Ex-Nigeria Skipper, Mikel Obi Joins Stoke City

LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Super Eagles Skipper, John Mikel Obi has joined Stoke City. The club confirmed the development Monday in its official website. The posted read: “The Nigerian international midfielder joins Morgan Fox, James Chester and Steven Fletcher in checking in at the bet365 Stadium ahead of the 2020/21 Championship season’’. The Club […]

Reps Reveal How Nigeria Govt Signed Empty Chinese Loan Repayment Documents

LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives said on Monday that Nigerian government officials signed empty repayment loan documents for the development of the Nigeria Rail sector even before the terms of the loans were negotiated. The House also said that it discovered that the Ministry of Transportation signed a commercial contract worth $33 billion […]

Obiano, Not Obi, Issued Certificate Of Recognition To Igwe Alor — Joe-Martins Uzodike

LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reports making the rounds on many media platforms where Alor Community allegedly disowned Igwe Mac-Anthony Chinedu Okonkwo and blamed his emergence, as the Igwe, on his forceful imposition by former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, are not true, a former Commissioner for Information in the state has said. Cleared the […]

COVID-19: Nigeria Govt Announces Date For Resumption Of International Flights

LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government has announced that international flights will resume on August 29. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced the new dates for resumption of flights at the bi-weekly Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Monday. He said the airports will open in batches beginning with Lagos and Abuja. President […]

CAMA: Oyedepo Spits Fire, Insist No One Can Appoint A Trustee Over His Church

LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bishop David Oyedepo has criticized the application of the Company and Allied Matters Acts (CAMA) in churches, following its signing into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on August 7, 2020. The law which permits the registrar-general of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and a supervising minister to strictly supervise religious bodies and charity […]

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