LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alhaji Abdulazeez Yari, the immediate past Governor of Zamfara State, has stated that the South should have a shot at the presidency in 2023. He stated this while speaking to reporters stressing that there is a need to ensure power shifts after the tenure of President Buhari. Yari said: “As we have…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr Peter Obi, has declared his support for Nigeria’s Former Finance Minister, Dr. Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala following her nomination for the post of Director, World Trade Organization (WTO). In a statement on Saturday, Obi stated that Okonjo-Iweala had the knowledge,…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A popular Nigerian Instagram celebrity facing wire fraud charges in the United States, Ramoni Abbas (popularly called Hushpuppi), has settled for a government lawyer after his case was transferred to another district. Mr Abbas, 37, who was resident in Dubai and known for flaunting extravagant lifestyle on social media, was arrested last…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Bamidele Salam, has raised the alarm that the contradictions in the Nigerian system have become so bad that public job slots are now being sold at exorbitant prices. According to him, they are now being sold for between N500,000 and N3m. He noted this…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Reverend Father, Rev. Fr. Joachim Cabanyes, of the Catholic Diocese of Enugu has died of COVID-19 related complications. This was made known in a statement released by Rev. Fr. Nkemjika Igweshi, Secretary to Most Rev. Callistus Onaga, Bishop of the Diocese. He died at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital isolation…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has been admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, state news agency SPA said on Monday. The king, who has ruled the world’s largest oil exporter and close U.S. ally since 2015, was undergoing medical checks, the…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID-19, and became the first member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet to contract the new coronavirus. Onyeama, 64, said on Twitter he had taken a COVID-19 test because of a throat irritation. “Did my fourth Covid-19 test yesterday at…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A non-partisan pressure group comprising lecturers in tertiary institutions in Nigeria, Academic Frontiers Initiative (AFI), has expressed satisfaction over the quality of aspirants for the Anambra 2021 gubernatorial elections, even as it bemoaned the woes bedeviling the state as a result of poor leadership. In a statement signed by its National Coordinator,…
