Archive for: November, 2020

Salami Panel Recommends Magu’s Sack As CCB Set To Charge Him For Failing To Declare Accounts

LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Justice Ayo Salami panel has recommended the sack of Ibrahim Magu, a commissioner of police, as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), TheCable can report. The panel, which submitted its report to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, also asked the president to appoint a new EFCC […]

Obi Calls On Govt, Church To Partner On Human Development

LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has called on the government to partner with the church and other progressive organisations in driving forward human development in society. Obi made this call while addressing newsmen at Nsukka during the dedication of St […]

Three Feared Dead As Customs, Smugglers Clash In Oyo Community

LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than three people including a Customs officer, military personnel and a civilian were reportedly killed when some men of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) clashed with some smugglers in Igbo-Ora town in Oyo state. It was gathered that the three persons died following a clash between Customs personnel from the Federal […]

Panic In Ogun As Two Pupils Die During Deworming Exercise

LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Attempts by the Ogun State Government to prevent cholera from killing schoolchildren in the state have boomeranged after it went awry. An exercise initiated to deworm no fewer than 700,000 schoolchildren in 14 local government areas of the state this year has allegedly taken the lives of two pupils who were given […]

Fed Up With Fuel Shortage,Venezuelans Siphon Crude Oil To Make Their Own Petrol

LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Venezuelans fed up with fuel shortages have begun tapping into the country’s crude oil pipelines to distill their own petrol as the country’s economic demise accelerates. The emerging practice was documented by a Reuters investigation that found desperate Venezuelans breaking holes in pipes and siphoning off crude oil and diverting it to […]

Jail Brake: Five Inmates Die In Auto-Crash As 6o Detainees Escape From Lebanese Prison

LAGOS November 22nd (newsrangers)-Five escaping prisoners died on Saturday when their car hit a tree after more than 60 detainees broke out of a Lebanese detention centre outside the capital Beirut, Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said in a statement. The ISF statement did not say how the 69 prisoners had escaped from the facility, […]

Trump Considers Abolishing Birthright Citizenship As Parting Gift-Report

LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump is considering an executive action to target birthright citizenship in his final weeks in office, according to two sources who spoke with The Hill in a report published on Friday. Birthright citizenship is the policy whereby anyone who is born in the US is immediately granted citizenship, regardless of […]

APC Govs Woo Goodluck Jonathan As Ex-President Celebrates 63rd Birthday

LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Apparently in continuation of pressure on former president Goodluck Jonathan to run for president in 2023 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), some governors of the party Friday stormed the Abuja home of Jonathan to felicitate with him on his 63rd birthday anniversary. The governors, who visited Jonathan were […]

Nigeria Officially Slides Into Second Recession Under Buhari’s Government

LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has officially slid into  second recession under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Government. The recent economic recession is the  worst in over three decades, TheCable can report. According to gross domestic product numbers released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday, the nation recorded a contraction of 3.62 percent […]

Law Students Sue Nigerian Lecturers N10bn Over Incessant Strikes

LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Law Students Association of Nigeria has dragged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), before the Federal High Court Abuja, challenging what it described as the incessant strikes of the union. In the suit which was filed at the court on Friday, the association is seeking an order to compel ASUU to […]

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