LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barring any last-minute change, a former governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim will today be arraigned before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on three-count criminal charges filed against him by the Inspector General of Police. The former governor is also facing defamation charge before Justice Ihuoma Chukwunyere…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A criminal complaint has been filed before a Chief Magistrate’s court in Abuja against 50 #EndSARS promoters. In the complaint filed by an activist, Kenechukwu Okeke, prominent personalities, mostly entertainers and social influencers, were listed. The case was instituted on Monday, November 9, 2020, in pursuant to sections 88, 109(a), 110(1)(c) of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty percent of coronavirus patients later develop a new mental illness, according to a study. The most common disorders experienced by COVID-19 survivors within 90 days of their diagnoses are anxiety, depression and insomnia, according to the study published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal. “People have been worried that COVID-19 survivors will…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has proposed to abolish the controversial pension and entitlements law of 2007 that approved payments of pensions and other ridiculous entitlements to former governors and deputy governors of the state. Sanwo-Olu made his intentions public when he presented the N1.154 trillion 2021 budget estimates to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 50 people have been beheaded in northern Mozambique by militant Islamists, state media report. The militants turned a football pitch in a village into an “execution ground”, where they decapitated and chopped bodies, other reports said. Several people were also beheaded in another village, state media reported. The beheadings…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jackson, the senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, was a conservative prison reform advocate. Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., an evangelical advisor to President Donald Trump and senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, died Monday at 66. The church released a statement after his death, saying, “It…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Pennsylvania postal worker has recanted claims that supervisors attempted to backdate ballots mailed after the election, according to congressional aides. The false allegations were cited by the Trump campaign and top Republicans as examples of voter fraud impacting the results of the presidential election. Richard Hopkins, a Postal Service worker from…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has vehemently opposed a suit before the Federal High Court in Lagos praying that the Arabic inscriptions on naira notes be removed. A Lagos-based lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, who filed the suit before Justice Mohammed Liman, contended that having Arabic inscriptions on the naira notes portrays Nigeria…