LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, on Friday told the Federal High Court, Abuja that his leg would have been amputated if he did not travel to Niger Republic for medicare. Maina offered the explanation in his affidavit to support the bail application filed before Justice Okon Abang. He […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ogun State High Court of Justice, holden in Abeokuta, Nigeria, has slammed N500,000 million damages against a U.K.-based blogger, Maureen Badejo for libelous publications through her GIO TV against the General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, and the church. The claimants are the Incorporated Trustees […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Lagos governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has urged Nigerians not to turn the present security challenges across the country into ethnic, tribal or religious crisis. He said anyone who had experienced ethnic confrontation or religious war before would not pray for one in Nigeria. It was his initial comment on the spate […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, has urged the Federal Government to give bandits desiring to make peace ‘blanket amnesty’ if the current security situation must be tackled. The Islamic scholar disclosed this while addressing journalists in Minna, Niger State capital. “The Federal government should give them blanket amnesty, then if […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Manchester City have reportedly offered Lionel Messi £170million less than what they were prepared to pay the Argentine when they tried to sign him last summer. The Barcelona forward almost joined former boss Pep Guardiola at the Etihad in August before opting to stay at the Nou Camp but it is looking […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Sudanese refugee stabbed and killed an employee at a centre for asylum seekers in the southern French city of Pau on Friday after his request for political asylum was rejected, authorities said. A police source said the Sudanese asylum seeker killed the director of the centre by stabbing him repeatedly in […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jamaican reggae icon Ewart Beckford, more popularly known as U-Roy, has died. The veteran toaster reportedly died in his native Jamaica on Wednesday night after ailing for sometime. He was 79. Tributes flowed freely on social media Wednesday night as musicians expressed sorrow at the death of a pioneering godfather of Jamaican music. […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has condemned the abduction of school children from Government Science College, Kagara, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, describing it as an attack on Nigeria’s fundamental development. Speaking through a release from his Media […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko, is dead, The PUNCH has learnt. It was learnt that the Katsina State indigene, who led the NCS from 2009 to 2015, died after a protracted illness. The former customs boss had been facing a probe by the Economic (EFCC) and Financial Crimes […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s economy exited recession in the fourth quarter of 2020, recording its first growth in three quarters as coronavirus-linked lockdown was lifted across the country, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a report Thursday. The report said Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 0.11 per cent in the three months between October […]
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