LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The on-going National Identity Number registration at the National Identity Management Commission was disrupted on Tuesday afternoon, as gunmen suspected to be cultists stormed the commission’s premises in Port Harcourt. Though the mission of the men, numbering seven, with some holding guns was not known, but eyewitnesses said they descended on…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government is targeting over 160,000 poor and vulnerable rural women, to benefit from the N20,000 cash grant, across the country to cushion the effects of COVID-19 pandemic. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Faruk, made the disclosure at the launch of the grant, on…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Friday claimed victory in a presidential election, rejecting early results which gave President Yoweri Museveni a wide lead as a “joke”. “I am very confident that we defeated the dictator by far. I call upon all Ugandans to reject the blackmail. We have certainly won the…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have demanded the sum of N50m for the seven kidnapped children of the children of the factional Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Alhaji Gyare Kadauri Sani. The victims, Bashar, Abubakar, Haruna, Habibah, Sufyanu, Mubarak and Armiya, were kidnapped by bandits…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 100-level undergraduate of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in Rivers State, Ami Ugochukwu, has been awarded a four-year comprehensive scholarship, N200,000 upkeep allowance and an award of excellence for his honesty and good conduct. It was learnt that the student distinguished himself after returning a lost phone he found, which…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS0-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has expressed sadness at the death of the former Military Governor of Imo and Lagos states, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (Rtd), and a Life Bencher and Leading Lawyer, Senator Onyeabo Chukwunedum Obi. Kanu, a native…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have been told to prepare for more pain this fiscal year, as the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning Minister Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, and the Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Mr. Ben Akubueze, presented the breakdown for the 2021 N13.588 trillion Federal Government’s Budget. The top Presidency officers,…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Edo lawmaker elect, Dr. Washington Osifo, hasfiled a suit at the Federal High Court in Benin, challenging the appointment of a sole administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), urging the court to declare the appointment “illegal, unconstitutional, null and void” as it negates the provision of the Act setting up…