LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Teenager Omar Farouq who was acquitted after being sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Sharia Court in Kano for blasphemy has left Nigeria. Farouq was facing further threats to his life from some extremists in Kano, Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum said on its website. Farouq was in 2020 handed the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) In a letter to President of the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, the President said he was acting in accordance with Paragraph 2(3) of Part1, CAP E1 of EFCC Act…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Navy on Monday deployed a total 14 warships and two helicopters to tackle the rising case of pirates’ attacks in the Gulf of Guinea. Security reports from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) had indicated an increase in maritime crime around the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). But the Chief of Naval…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Trade Organization’s incoming chief on Monday warned against “vaccine nationalism’ that would slow progress in ending the COVID-19 pandemic and could erode economic growth for all countries – rich and poor. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told Reuters her top priority was to ensure the WTO does more to address the pandemic, saying…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pro-Niger Delta group, has exornorated Engr. Simbi Wabote, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Local Content Board, of $2million bribery allegation, describing same as mischievous and misleading. The group, Niger Delta Oil Communities Agenda NIDOCA, in a statement on Monday at Asaba, by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Akpovoka, said ” it…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely four and half months after the official launch and roll-out of the Federal Government’s National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP), the programme has been dogged by allegations of fraud and corruption against electricity distribution companies (Discos) saddled with the task of installing the meters. It would be recalled that the Federal Government…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Naira Marley’s concert which was scheduled to hold in Cameroon on February 14, reportedly failed to hold as it was allegedly disrupted by the country’s Special Forces Soldiers. Music journalist, Joey Akan who raised an alarm of a “struggling comedian” named CY International leading an anti-Nigerian movement in the country and many…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has eulogised the newly-elected Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, describing her emergence as historic. By her election today, Okonjo-Iweala becomes the First Female and First African WTO Director-General. In a Congratulatory Message…