LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 presidential hopeful, Mr. Peter Obi, has extolled Nigerian health workers, especially the nurses and midwives, who, he said, were critical part of primary health care delivery in the country. Obi, in a message to commemorate the Nurses Week 2022, stated that the nation remains grateful to the…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that any cabinet ministers seeking to run in next year’s elections should resign before May 16, the minister of information said on Wednesday. Under the electoral law that was amended in February, no political appointees are allowed to contest party primaries or vote during such primaries….
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Palestinian American journalist was killed on Wednesday while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank — and news network Al Jazeera claims the reporter was shot dead by Israeli forces. Shireen Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old U.S. citizen who was working for the Qatar-based news outlet’s Arabic language channel, was…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in Burkina Faso on Tuesday ordered ex-president Blaise Compaore and nine others to pay more than a million dollars in damages to relatives of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara and aides who were assassinated in 1987. The order comes after a trial last month that sentenced the group to long jail…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan last night “rejected” the expression of interest and nomination forms bought for him to contest the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The purported rejection was announced by his media office hours after a group called Nomadic Pastoralists and the Almajiri Communities led by one Ibrahim…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor of Taraba State, Engr Darius Dickson Ishaku, has described the former Governor of Anambra state, Mr. Peter Obi, as an exceptional Nigerian who has shown that responsibility should define the position of leadership. Governor Ishaku was speaking on Monday when Obi visited him with his team that are on nation-wide consultations…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are some strange things that happen on earth and people see them as mysterious events because it goes contrary to what they have known for many years. However, some of these mysterious events take months, years, decades and even centuries before they happen again. So, it makes the present generation that…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Elder statesman, Chief Robert Clarke, has called for the extension of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who said this on Monday, argued that the months preceding the 2023 elections are not sufficient to put an end to the insecurity, making the conduct of election possible. Speaking when…
