LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Students on scholarship of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) protested on Monday in the United Kingdom the non-payment of their tuition fees. Carrying placards, the students converged on the Nigerian High Commission in London to express displeasure over “negligence of their welfare”. They said they had resorted to begging for food…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Property developer Tayo Amusan is believed to be in the frontlines to buy the majority share of Africa’s largest food retailer Shoprite in its Nigerian subsidiary. Mr Amusan owns Persianas Nigeria Limited, a property development company, with some of his property housing Shoprite stores. The Nigerian is believed to be among three…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria Monday reported 288 confirmed new cases of the deadly coronavirus, the first straight decline, to bring the tally in the country to 44, 129, with 20, 663 recoveries and 896 deaths (8 new). The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, said Lagos, the epicenter of the pandemic in the country, added…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice according to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is centrally a matter of how individuals are treated, it is also possible to speak of justice for groups – for example when the state is allocating resources between different categories of citizens. Here each group is being treated as though it…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr Peter Obi, has congratulated Olumide Akpata on his recent election as President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), while urging him to draw on his decades of professional experience to reposition the Association to greater heights. In a…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian airline, Air Peace, has sacked over 70 pilots across its fleet. It also reduced staff salaries by up to 40 per cent. A member of the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers disclosed this to one of our correspondents, craving anonymity. The source said the number of sacked pilots…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman of the Edo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council for the 2020 governorship poll, Chief Dan Orbih, has insisted that everything that the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said about the APC candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu in 2016 is correct and should inform their…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign instead of ruling for life, is seriously ill, a German newspaper reported on Monday. The newspaper, Passauer Neue Presse, cited Benedict’s biographer, German author Peter Seewald, who met the 93-year-old emeritus pope at the Vatican on Saturday. A Vatican spokesperson…