Senate Passes Electoral Act Amendment Bill, Approves e- Transmission, Direct Primary

LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Tuesday approved the conference committee report on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. The report was approved after the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, moved a motion on Tuesday. The Senate and House of Representatives had in July passed different versions of the bill. While the Senate proposed either direct or…

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Suspected Assassins Kill Retired Air Vice Marshal, Physiotherapist In Kaduna

LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be assassins have killed a former director of medical training operation, at the Defence headquarters, Air Vice Marshal M. M. Maisaka (Rtd) at his residence in Rigasa, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. It was gathered that the deceased was shot dead alongside his physiotherapist (also a NAF personnel)…

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Three Children, Including Baby, Die After Consumption Of Packet Of Noodles

LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three children, including a four-month-old baby boy, died after eating a packet of noodles on Sunday during a visit to relatives in New Brighton, in the Eastern Cape. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said police are investigating an inquest following the deaths of the three children, Sinothando Ngwendu (11), Olwam Ngwendu (7),…

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Key Defendant In Burkina’s Thomas Sankara Trial Pleads Not Guilty

LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-General Gilbert Diendere, a key defendant in a trial over the 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, pleaded not guilty at the landmark proceedings on Tuesday. The trial, unfolding in a military court in the capital Ouagadougou, is being avidly followed in a country where Sankara’s brutal death 34…

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