LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comr. Philip Shaibu, has called on the people of Akoko-Edo Local Government Area (LGA) to ask their representatives at the state’s House of Assembly, Hon. Yekini Idiaye and Hon. Emmanuel Agbaje, for their share of the N40 million given to each of them by the former…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kwara State deputy governor, Kayode Alabi, and his wife, Abieyuwa, have joined the list of dignitaries who contracted Covid-19. A statement by Rafiu Ajakaye, the spokesperson of the state’s Technical Committee on COVID-19 says the duo underwent COVID-19 test after they showed minor symptoms of the virus. Ajakaye however, said the couple…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Niger Delta Development Commission to pay its scholarship beneficiaries studying abroad. This was contained in a statement titled ‘NDDC invites President Buhari to Commission Signature Project’ and signed by the NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, on Tuesday. Odili said Buhari conveyed the directive to…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Footballers could be sent off if they deliberately cough at an opponent under new rules issued during the coronavirus pandemic. Referees will be told that coughs aimed at the face of another player or an official can be deemed a red-card offence. The guidance has been announced by the International Football Association…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are fears that Lance Corporal Martins Idakpini, the detained soldier arrested for criticising Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, may have been killed by the army as punishment for his action, it has been gathered. SaharaReporters had earlier reported how the army twice denied Idakpini’s lawyer and family from seeing him in…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Students on scholarship of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) protested on Monday in the United Kingdom the non-payment of their tuition fees. Carrying placards, the students converged on the Nigerian High Commission in London to express displeasure over “negligence of their welfare”. They said they had resorted to begging for food…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Property developer Tayo Amusan is believed to be in the frontlines to buy the majority share of Africa’s largest food retailer Shoprite in its Nigerian subsidiary. Mr Amusan owns Persianas Nigeria Limited, a property development company, with some of his property housing Shoprite stores. The Nigerian is believed to be among three…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria Monday reported 288 confirmed new cases of the deadly coronavirus, the first straight decline, to bring the tally in the country to 44, 129, with 20, 663 recoveries and 896 deaths (8 new). The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, said Lagos, the epicenter of the pandemic in the country, added…
