Archive for: July, 2024

Bayo Onanuga’s Recklessness

By Valentine Obienyen LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Besides the trending old lyrics from Mike Ejeagha, “gwo gwo gwo gwom”, another issue that gained traction on social media platforms was the trademark diatribes from Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu. In his statements, he portrayed Mr. Peter Obi as an incurable anarchist without […]

Commonwealth Scribe To Make First Official Visit To Pakistan

LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, will pay her first official visit to Pakistan from 28 July to 2 August 2024 on the invitation of the Government of Pakistan. During her five-day visit, Secretary-General Scotland will meet with Pakistan’s leadership, members of the cabinet, youth leaders, civil society representatives […]

‘You Are Playing With Fire’, Uganda’s President Warns Citizens Over Planned Protests

LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Uganda’s hardline President Yoweri Museveni has warned citizens planning anti-corruption protests Tuesday that they are “playing with fire.” The upcoming protests come after a wave of deadly anti-government demonstrations that rattled neighboring country Kenya where at least 50 people were killed in clashes with security forces, according to figures released by the […]

Incentive: Russia Lures New Recruits With A Record $22,000 Signing To Fight In Ukraine

LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Authorities in the city of Moscow are offering a record signing-on bonus for new recruits to fight in Ukraine, in the latest sign of a scramble to boost Russian troop numbers. The financial sweetener comes as President Vladimir Putin struggles to recruit soldiers for his army as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine […]

Journalists In Kenya Protest Govt, Police Attacks On Media Freedoms

  LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of journalists joined marches in Kenya on Wednesday in protest at what they see as heavy-handed government tactics to stifle media freedoms, including police attacks on journalists during the demonstrations that have rocked the country for the past five weeks. The journalists — many wearing white — held placards reading […]

Senior Police Officers Protest As IGP Egbetokun Gets Tenure Extension

LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The decision to amend the Nigeria Police Act 2020, which the National Assembly effectively did on Tuesday is tearing the force apart as senior officers have moved against it. Already, there are grumbles and expressions of dissent with some going as far as warning that loyalty and hard work in the face […]

Biden Honours MFM Pastor Daniel Olukoya With U.S. ‘President’s Lifetime Achievement Award’  

LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President of the United States of America, Mr. Joe Biden, has bestowed on the General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (Worldwide), Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, with the US President’s Lifetime Achievement Award.  Collins Edomaruse, the recipient’s media aide, said in a statement that Dr. Olukoya and his wife, Dr. […]

Kyari Asks Dangote To Name NNPC Officials Who Own Blending Plant In Malta

LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-NNPC Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, says he does not own a blending plant in Malta, adding that he does not know of any employee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited who owns such a facility in the island country in Europe. Kyari, in a Tuesday post on X (formerly […]

Disparaging Dangote Will Create Bad Name For Nigeria Globally-Adesina

LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina, yesterday waded into the ongoing public squabble between the President of the Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), Alhaji Aliko Dangote and the management of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA). Expressing his opinion on the matter, Adesina described the […]

Amnesty International Warns Tinubu Govt Against Threatening Peaceful Protesters

LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amnesty International, global human rights body, has lambasted the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government for threatening to unleash mayhem on peaceful #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters. The Special Assistant to President Tinubu on Social Media, Dada Olusegun, had warned Nigerians planning nationwide protests against hardship in the country to stay off the streets. Olusegun had […]

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