LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has told Nigerians that his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, could have used the military to overrun opposition states but instead chose to be impartial during the 2019 general elections. Buhari said this when governors from the Northeast met with him and the Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stakeholders from the coastal and riverine communities in Niger Delta region have warned against the abrupt dismantling of Secure Anchorage Area SAA in Lagos being handled by a capable and competent indigenous company. The stakeholders also faulted the plot by the Ministry of Transportation and Nigerian Port Authority NPA to terminate the…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-During the period of the transatlantic slave trade, more than 12.5 million enslaved persons were shipped from Africa to the Americas with about 3.5 million of them from Nigeria. Today there are communities of people with Nigerian ancestry mostly in Brazil, Cuba, and Jamaica who have retained some some of their ancestral…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that Edo people should not be blamed if they resort to self-defense against former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, who is unleashing violence and using assassins against perceived opponents. The governor said this after inspecting the residence of…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Adam Nuru, Managing Director of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), says the bank made an error of posting N573 million into the church account of Emmanuel Omale. The Presidential Committee on Audit of Recovered Assets (PCARA) had accused Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), of…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has come under heavy criticism for saying that internet fraudsters, popularly called Yahoo Boys have become role models in Nigeria. The former minister, while delivering a lecture at a virtual event organised by the Ijaw National Development Group, cautioned that the new trend ‘Yahoo Yahoo’…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A musician in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano has been sentenced to death by hanging for blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad. An upper Sharia court in the Hausawa Filin Hockey area of the state said Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22, was guilty of committing blasphemy for a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March….
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, has lamented that internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo Boys, have become role models in Nigerian society. The former said this at the weekend while delivering a lecture at a virtual event organised by the Ijaw National Development Group. The former minister said,…
