LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Damilola Olakanmi, a Nigerian law student based in East London, The United Kingdom, has died after eating the cannabis sweet she bought via a messaging app on her phone. The UK Evening Standard reported that Olakanmi, 23, immediately fell ill after taking the sweet on March 29 and had to be rushed…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos Lawyer and Activist, Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo has written a letter to the Federal Government of Nigeria condemning the blocking of telephone lines of Nigerians who have not link their National Identity Number (NIN) to their telephone numbers. Omirhobo in a letter dated April 5th, 2022 addressed to the Federal…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has reiterated that political parties must adhere strictly to the principles of internal democracy, drawing from their constitutions, guidelines, the Electoral Act and other Regulations and Guidelines issued by the Commission. Issuing the warning in a press statement signed by National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Sunday 3rd April 2022, a video emerged on social media where a patrol vessel with the inscription NIMASA-Barugu on it and belonging to Messers Global West Specialist Vessels Limited sank in Lagos. The Boat was one of the Vessels owned by GWSVL and deployed for patrol during the implementation of a…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As its mandate ends Tuesday, the 37-person zoning committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has flung open its presidential ticket to all aspirants. The decision came after a meeting on Tuesday at the Benue State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja. According to a source who pleaded anonymity, the committee threw open the ticket…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Inland Revenue Service has named Shell as a “leading tax compliant organisation in Nigeria for 2021.” At an award ceremony in Abuja last week as part of the second annual National Tax Dialogue, Shell companies in Nigeria also won the award for ‘remarkable performance in the remittance of various taxes’…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Chief Imam of the Apo Legislative Quarters Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Khalid, has been appointed to lead another Juma’at mosque in Abuja. This is coming barely 24 hours after the Imam was sacked by the Apo mosque steering committee over a sermon that criticised the government’s failure to stop insecurity in the…
