LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States District Court for the Central District of California has postponed the sentencing of Ramon “Hushpuppi” Abbas till July 11, 2022. Court document seen by Peoples Gazette said Judge Otis D. Wright in Los Angeles granted the order after Hushpuppi’s lawyers led by Louis Shapiro entered a request for postponement….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS) Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State has relisted an application by Human Right Activist, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo for the enforcement of his human rights and those of the Nigerian public in Delta State over the alleged killings of Fulani herdsmen in the region for hearing. A SUIT NO:…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than six persons have been kidnapped by suspected terrorists during an invasion of the residence of the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities at the Federal University of Gusau (FUGUS), Abdurrahman Adamu. The gunmen launched an attack on the ASUU chairman’s home in Damba Quarters, an outskirt of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A young Nigerian have launched a new social media app known as ‘ShapClick’. ShapClick, a social media messaging app, developed by a Nigerian developer, is set to take over Facebook, Twitter and others. According to Mr Hyacinth Chinweuba, the app developer’s spokesperson, the social media app which was launched on the 22nd…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-West African leaders hold a key summit on Thursday as a wave of coups buffet a region struggling with poverty and a long history of turbulence. Emergency talks in the Ghanaian capital Accra were triggered after Burkina Faso on January 24 became the third member of the 15-nation Economic Community of West…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has approached Standard Chartered Bank for funding of two rail projects, its Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi said on Wednesday, after delays from Chinese lenders. President Muhammadu Buhari has made upgrading transport networks and improving outdated power grids the pillar of his administration, with a view to boosting agriculture and other non-oil…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt coach Carlos Queiroz hit out at Cameroon legend Samuel Eto’o for sending a “very bad message” after likening Thursday’s Africa Cup of Nations semi-final between the sides to a “war”. Eto’o, who is now president of Cameroon’s Football Federation, made the comment to his team in a video widely published on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-It’s 2 p.m. and Hannah Mgbede asks her husband if she can take her first break of the day from threshing rice so she can breastfeed their 18-month-old baby girl fastened to her back during the grueling work. Her husband Ibrahim Mohammed, 45, used to harvest as many as 10 bags of…