LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced detained U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty on several charges, including incitement for allegedly spreading false or inflammatory information. Fenster, the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was also found guilty of contacting illegal organizations…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai surfaced on the microblogging platform, Twitter, on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, despite the ban placed on the app by the Federal Government and Nigerians are not having it. The Governor whose last tweet was on June 6, a day after the Nigerian government suspended the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has appealed to world leaders attending the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 to close the gap in ongoing negotiations this week in Glasgow, with millions of lives and livelihoods on the line in climate-vulnerable countries. Secretary-General Scotland delivered her statement today to the resumed high-level segment of the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the winner of the Anambra State 2021 gubernatorial election, foremost civil society election observation organisation in Nigeria, the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), has called for the improvement of election equipment especially the Biometric Voters Accreditation System (BVAS). The group, on Wednesday, also…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has congratulated the winner of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). In a short statement made available to journalists on Wednesday by his…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Judge Rebukes Two Nigerians Abdulrasheed Maina, a former Nigerian government official who ran a defunct pension reform department, has been convicted of stealing 2 billion naira ($4.8 million) belonging to pensioners after a two-year trial. Okon Abang, a judge at a federal high court in Abuja, sentenced Maina to eight years in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has been declared winner of the Anambra Governorship Election by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The Returning Officer of the Anambra Governorship Election, Prof Florence Obi, announced the result on Wednesday morning at…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi, has said that a new salary structure for officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force will be put in place soon. Dingyadi, who disclosed this, on Tuesday, when he appeared before the National Assembly, joint committee on Police Affairs, for the defence of the…