By Amos Okioma LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief Style Benjamin, National Chairman of Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas (HOSTCOM) on Sunday dissociated the group from ongoing fraudulent jobs and contract scams in Bayelsa. Benjamin said in Yenagoa that fraudulent people were using the name HOSTCOM to defraud unsuspecting people in Bayelsa and across…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A total of 252 Special Advisers and Special Assistants of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State have resigned their positions. The Governor’s aides said on Sunday while addressing journalists that their decision was borne out of the resolve to stay in the APC, as they insisted that they have roles to…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Ibadan on Sunday lamented Sunday’s demolition of the Music House owned by popular musician, Yinka Ayefele, by the Oyo State Government. Hundreds of residents had thronged the scene wielding placards with various inscriptions criticising the state government over the exercise. Ayefele, on his Facebook page after the demolition, said: “Oyo…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With the publication of notice of polls by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last Friday, and the primaries coming up later this month, the countdown to the 2019 polls may have begun in earnest. With barely seven months to the 2019 general polls, permutations on their possible outcome have been the…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some powerful forces in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are canvassing consensus for the purpose of picking the party’s presidential candidate in next year’s election to avoid a post-primary crisis, The Nation now report. The promoters of the consensus arrangement see it as the “only veritable option” open to the party in…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Satan worshippers turned out to cheer the unveiling of a bronze statue dedicated to a goat-headed winged creature called Baphomet in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Satanic Temple organisation arranged the rally outside the Arkansas State Capitol building to protest a Ten Commandments monument already on the grounds. Although the striking, eight-and-a-half-foot tall…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When Pope Francis kissed baby Gianna Masciantonio in 2015, some saw it as an encouraging sign. The 1-year-old had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, Philadelphia’s Fox 29 News reported at the time. Doctors had not expected that she would make it to her first birthday, but she overcame the odds —…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson on Saturday commiserated with the family of Kofi Annan, the United Nations, the government and people of Ghana on the demise of former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan at the age of 80. Annan was the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for humanitarian work winner….
