LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said its orientation camps will reopen when it is very safe, in view of the formidable danger posed by COVID-19 pandemic. Director of Press and Public Relations of the scheme, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, made this known in a statement yesterday in Abuja. ”The attention of…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria is to increase passengers service charges in domestic and international flight tickets by 100 per cent from August 1, 2020. It was gathered that the authority would increase the PSC on domestic flights from the current rate of N1,000 to N2,000. FAAN would also hike the…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After emerging winner of the Peoples Democratic Party’s primary election, having polled a total vote of 1,952 out of the 2020 votes cast, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, Edo State Governor, has revealed that he almost quit the governorship race. Senator Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi State, who was the Election Committee Chairman while declaring…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have said that the dissolution of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party will allow President Muhammadu Buhari to focus on governance. Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum and Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu, made this known to State…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ECOWAS Court of Justice, has ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay the salaries and allowances of 244 soldiers dismissed in 2016. A statement issued by the court on Friday said that the order was given in a Judgment issued by a panel of three justices of the court on…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has blamed the horrible spate of drug abuse among Nigerian youths to the ever worsening economic realities prevalent in the country, saying that a visible economic recovery will see a drastic reduction in the number of…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the pro-Adam Oshiomole National Working Committee (NWC) have resolved to take legal action over the resolution of the National Executive Committee (NEC) to dissolve the national leadership of the party. NEC had during an emergency virtual meeting resolved among other things to dissolve the national leadership, setting up caretaker committee…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-That’s Bill Gates, the Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.26% co-founder whose philanthropic foundation has long funded the global fight against infectious diseases, speaking about the coronavirus pandemic Thursday night during a virtual town hall on CNN. Appearing with anchor Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Gates said the U.S. is “not even close”…
