LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Port Harcourt based group, Port Harcourt Elites For Justice has alleged that the management of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was practising double standard on promotion examinations for staff. A spokesman of the group who identified himself as Sir Clifford Douglas made the allegation in an interaction with our correspondent at…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, the first-ever female combat helicopter pilot in Nigeria, is dead. She was barely 23 years of age. Arotile died as a result of head injuries sustained from a road traffic accident at Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base Kaduna. Her death came barely a year after she was winged…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have charged one Moses Anyaoha with nine counts bordering on criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide and stealing. The Police alleged that Anyaoha and one Tony Mba, now at large, between 2010 and January 2011 conspired to commit offence of culpable homicide contrary to Section 96 of the Penal Code. Prosecution Counsel,…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has cautioned the Federal Government against the recent directive by the Federal Government through the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, that schools in the country would no longer re-open as earlier planned and that the West…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Trump administration abruptly reversed course Tuesday, telling a federal judge in Boston that it was dropping a new policy that would have required international students to leave the U.S. if their colleges or universities were offering only online classes. The announcement was made without explanation in a hearing with U.S. District…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than half a million people have died from COVID-19 globally. It is a major tragedy, but perhaps not on the scale some initially feared. And there are finally signs that the pandemic is shuddering in places, as if its engine is running out of fuel. This has encouraged many governments to…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. health officials and drugmakers expect to start producing potential coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of the summer, a senior administration official said Monday. The U.S. is aiming to deliver 300 million doses of a vaccine for Covid-19 by early 2021. The manufacturing process is already underway even though they aren’t…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nation newspaper has apologised to Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, for publishing a report claiming that he was paid N28m to handle a case by the suspended Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu. In a rejoinder on Tuesday, the newspaper said that Falana did not also…
