LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the 2020 Edo State Governorship election is fast approaching, a civil society organization under the aegis of “No Sidon Look’ has thrown its weight behind the re-election of Edo State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer, Mr Godwin Obaseki. In the organisation’s effort to ensure that Obaseki is re-elected…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Tuesday passed a Bill which amended the Police Act and proscribed among others a four-year single tenure for the office of the Inspector-General of Police. The proposed legislation is titled, “Police Act CAP P19 LFN 2004 (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2020” The bill states that the tenure was introduced…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Employment Labour and Productivity, Senate Chris Ngige, on Tuesday, apologised to the National Assembly over the recent altercation between the Minister of State for Labour, Mr. Festus Keyamo SAN, and a joint committee of the National Assembly over-sighting the ministry. Keyamo had disagreed with the joint committee on the…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives on Tuesday took a swipe at the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige for suspending the entire management of NSITF over pumped up allegations. The lawmakers apparently peeved by the minister’s action which according to them was a clear violation of Presidential Order said it was…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak even as it has ravaged his nation, said Tuesday that he has COVID-19. Confirming his diagnosis to journalists in Brasilia on Tuesday, Bolsonaro said that he was suffering muscle aches, fatigue and a fever but otherwise felt “normal.”…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghanaian Actress Rosemond Alade Brown better known as Akuapem Poloo has been arrested by the police over a nude photoshoot with her seven-year-old son which went viral on social media. According to Ghanaweb, Akuapem Poloo was picked up by operatives of Ghana’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and was sent to the headquarters…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ibrahim Magu has been suspended as the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This comes a day after he was arrested and detained by officers of the Department of State Security (DSS) in Abuja. He was grilled by a panel probing allegations of gross misconduct against him but…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ondo State Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi has rushed to an Abuja High Court where he filed legal proceedings seeking to stop the impeachment proceeding and enforced his fundamental right of association against the impeachment process of members of Ondo state House of Assembly. Other defendants in the suit were the Inspector General…
