LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prominent Niger Delta Activist , Tamunokuro George has announced the death of his father, Captain Ogenbo Obriki, who died on Monday 28th September, 2020. Tamuno, a die-hard loyalist of Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Ministry, in a statement said, Captain Ogenbo Obriki, a retired Army, passed on at the age…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Muniru Olagunju of the Oyo State High Court has sentenced Oreoluwa Adesakin, an ex-staff of a tier-one bank, to cumulative 98 years in prison for fraud. Adesakin, female, was found to have committed financial fraud against her employers to the tune of N49,320,652.32 and additional $368,203 belonging to the bank which…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Didier Drogba has been selected to receive the 2020 UEFA President’s Award. The former Chelsea and Ivory Coast striker was hailed as a “pioneer” by UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin. Drogba fired Chelsea’s winning penalty in the 2012 Champions League final shoot-out, steering the Blues to four Premier League titles and as many…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 32-year-old Wisconsin school staffer who sexually abused a 16-year-old student — and told police she was going through “extensive personal issues” in her life at the time — has pleaded guilty. On Monday, former Green Bay school staffer Courtney Roznowski was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading no contest…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This Nov. 6 will mark 38 years president Paul Biya has clung on to power in Cameroon—making him Africa’s second longest-serving head of state, after his peer Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea. Biya, 87, became president in 1982, long before the majority of the central African country’s 25 million people were born….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, said the agency has discovered N2.67 billion meant for the school feeding programme in private accounts. The agency, he added, also found over N2.5 billion diverted by a deceased worker with the ministry of agriculture, noting that 18 buildings, 12 business…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday named the first-ever female prime minister to head the government in the West African nation. Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned on Friday. A close ally of the president, she has served as his chief-of-staff since 2009. Togo had been due for…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Maitama, Abuja has awarded N50 million damages against the Senator representing Adamawa North, Senator Elisha Abbo, to be paid as compensation to Osimibibra Warmate, a female attendant at a sex-toy shop, whom he assaulted. Justice Samira Bature gave the order in her…
