LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As COVID-19 continues to ravage the developed world, the effects are farther reaching in areas of Africa. Amina Abdulla, Concern Worldwide’s Country Director in Kenya, has raised the alarm that women are currently feeling extensive personal devastation in the wake of COVID-19. According to her, “Due to greater economic stress and social isolation…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Loyalists to Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki are in celebration mood as all the aspirants for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primary in Edo State, including Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama, have agreed to settle out of court. Recall that the Federal High court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital,…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reggae legend Bunny Wailer has offered a reward of Jamaican dollar one million for anyone who has information that can lead to the whereabouts of his wife Jean ‘Sister Jean’ Watt. Watt, 70, who is dreadlocked and about five feet, three inches tall, went missing from her home in Washington Gardens one…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has faulted the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, on the claim that Ghana has apologised to Nigeria on the demolition of buildings of the Nigerian Embassy in the country. The House, while dismissing the call for diplomatic negotiations by the minister, demanded that Nigeria should seek retaliation…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has celebrated the 2020 World Sickle Cell Day with the Association of People Living with Sickle Cell Disorder (APLSCD) in Nigeria by donating relief materials to them. Obi, who called for more awareness of the Sickle…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has apologised to Nigeria after a building inside the Nigerian High Commission compound in Accra was demolished. Mr Akufo-Addo has ordered an investigation, a statement from the Nigerian government said after his call with President Muhammadu Buhari. Armed men reportedly stormed the compound last week and destroyed buildings…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police have they did not seal the National Secretariat of All Progressive Congress in Abuja contrary report in the media. The force made it clear that it deployed its operatives as a proactive measure to maintain peace and ensure there was no breakdown of law and order at the party…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Bill Cosby has won the right to appeal his 2018 sexual assault conviction. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to review two aspects of the case that Cosby is challenging — the judge’s decision to allow prosecutors to call five other accusers and to introduce evidence that he’d given women Quaaludes in…
