LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Air conditioning units that recirculate air in rooms and offices should be turned off or used only with open windows because of the risk of spreading coronavirus, experts advise. They fear that any Covid-19 droplets in the air could be transmitted more easily to people in the room, even those who are…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five people have been killed after attackers stormed a South African church, reportedly amid an argument over its leadership. South African police said they had rescued men, women and children from a “hostage situation” on the outskirts of Johannesburg on Saturday morning. They have also arrested at least 40 people, and seized…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration in Edo State is changing the face of education in the state with the reforms implemented through the Edo State Basic Education Sector Transformation (EdoBEST), efforts to strengthen the state’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), including the recruitment of new teachers and tertiary education overhaul….
Gal Pissetzky, counsel for alleged international fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi, has said his client was illegally taken to the United States. Pissetzky of Pissetzky & Berliner said the Federal Bureau of Investigation kidnapped his client from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The Chicago-based lawyer argued that the Dubai Police should have extradited Abbas to…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, who is being investigated over corruption allegations by a special presidential panel, is asking the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to release him on bail. Mr Magu, a serving police officer who has been in detention since his…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The British High Commission in Nigeria has announced plans to resume visa processing in the country. It revealed that it will soon begin receiving visa applications from Nigerians who want to travel to the United Kingdom (UK). This was disclosed in a public statement by the British High Commission in Abuja on…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice L.N. Oweibo of Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday sentenced Captain Peter Okomi to one year imprisonment for illegally dealing in petroleum products. Also convicted and sentenced was his firm Moyitok Nigeria Ltd and a vessel, M.V. Agbeke. The convicts were prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former professional boxer and undisputed world heavyweight champion, Michael Gerard Tyson popularly known as Mike Tyson has revealed that he is not an American but rather a Congolese. In the last episode of his famous “hotboxin podcast” with singer and songwriter, Akon, Mike made a shocking revelation saying that he did his…
