LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State government on Wednesday evening resolved the rift between Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) and Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) which let to power cut since Dec 23, 2019. Mr Kenedy Olorogun, Chairman, Central Zone of the IYC , who confirmed the development in a telephone interview said the youths have…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Nigeria continues to defend its territorial integrity against terrorist groups, the office of the prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) has outlined 10 possible cases it could press against Nigerian security forces and the three factions of insurgent groups operating under the popular name of Boko Haram. The ICC prosecutor…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran was struck by two earthquakes near a nuclear power plant on Wednesday after a chaotic day that saw the country launch missiles at two U.S. military bases in Iraq before a passenger plane crashed and killed dozens in an unrelated incident. According to the Washington Post, a 4.9 magnitude earthquake hit…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS-Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, plans to take office space in New York to help diversify his investments and avoid the risk of currency fluctuations on his home continent. The owner of the biggest cement company in sub-Saharan Africa will use the base and an existing one in London to become more…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANERS)-A hairdresser, Ms Patience Oamen, yesterday told an Ikeja High Court how her 38-year-old brother, Nelson Oamen, allegedly stabbed their 78-year-old father to death with a broken bottle. Nelson, a carpenter, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), was arraigned on July 10, 2019, on a charge of murder, contrary to Section…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the management of Radio Communication Nigeria Limited, RCN, one of the companies owned by the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 election, late M.K.O Abiola has snowballed into legal hostilities. Two administrators and personal representatives to the Estate of the deceased business mogul, Boma Alabi,Timothy Hugh Daniel, alongside two…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senegalese forward Sadio Mane has won the 2019 CAF African Player of the Year award. He beats Liverpool’s teammate Mohammed Salah and Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez to win the award at the annual awards ceremony staged in Hurghada on Tuesday. Mane has been a finalist in the previous three editions of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Temporary relief came the way of motorists plying the the completed section of the Lagos-Badagry expressway declared open for use by governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state, but it appears, that, that excitement that greeted the commissioning of the Agboju to Trade Fair stretch of the highway is fading away as tankers…