Archive for: October, 2021

FG Scraps DPR, PPPRA, PEF, Inaugurates New Agencies

LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of Petroleum Resources, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency and the Petroleum Equalisation Fund are all officially scrapped and do not exist anymore, the Federal Government said on Monday. It also said while workers of the three agencies would be protected, their chief executives had been relieved of their various […]

Pandora Papers: Obi Welcomes Proposed EFCC Probe, Says Yet To Get Invitation

LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has welcomed the proposed probe of his foreign business operations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as a result of the recently released Pandora Papers. Though Obi was not accused of either stealing public […]

Nigerian Doctor Under Investigation In Europe Over Poor Performance

LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A medical inquiry has heard that a Nigerian doctor Francis Megwa, who was employed as a senior house officer at University Maternity Hospital Limerick knew “near nothing” and was unable to take blood samples and insert intravenous drips and had to ask what an obstetrician was.  Megwa is accused of two counts […]

Africa’s Biggest Film Festival, FESPACO Kicks Off In Burkina Faso

LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS) — Africa’s largest film festival kicks off Saturday in Burkina Faso amid both the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing jihadi insurgency in the West African nation that has killed thousands of people and displaced more than 1 million in recent years. Alex Moussa Sawadogo, head of the Pan-African Film and TV […]

Nigeria Army Kill 24 Suspected Islamist Insurgents In Two Separate Attacks

LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian troops killed 24 suspected Islamist insurgents in two attacks in the northeast and recovered some weapons, the army said on Tuesday. Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been fighting the Nigerian armed forces for more than a decade in a conflict that has killed hundreds […]

Trump Lashes At Colins Powell After His Demise

LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump isn’t known for his respect for the dead. He continued to publicly bash John McCain after the Republican stalwart died in 2018. He attacked Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) in 2019 by implying her late husband John Dingell is in hell. Now, the former president is lashing out at Colin Powell […]

Colin Powell, First Black US Scribe Dies Of Covid-19 Complications Amid Cancer Battle

LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84. “General Colin L. […]

Int’l Press Centre Demands Thorough Investigation Over Missing Vanguard Reporter

LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, South- West Nigeria, has expressed  serious concerned over the sudden disappearance of Vanguard Newspaper’s House of Representatives Correspondent, Mr. Tordue Salem since last Wednesday. Mr. Salem was reportedly last sighted within the premises of a Total Filling Station, opposite the FCT, Abuja Police headquarters on Wednesday […]

Scores Feared Dead As Bandits Raid Sokoto Market Again

LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected armed bandits have attacked the Goronyo market in Goronyo Local Government Area in the Eastern Senatorial District of Sokoto State. Sources in the village said the assailants attacked the market in large numbers on Sunday night, shooting sporadically and killing several persons. The actual number of casualties was yet to be […]

I Have Not Made Any Statement On EFCC ‘s Invitation – Peter Obi

LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi has denied reacting to the invitation sent to him by the EFCC as being circulated on different media platforms.  The said reaction  quoted Obi as  requesting the EFCC to make their investigations public, among other out-of-character remarks. The […]

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