LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s security forces have been ordered to defend all schools in “liberated areas” of the country’s northeast to avoid further mass abductions from schools by Boko Haram extremists, the president’s office announced Wednesday. Many in Africa’s most populous country have been outraged by the kidnapping of 110 girls in a Feb. 19…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Faculty members at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, have voted by a large majority that the school should annul the honorary degree awarded Donald Trump in 1988. Almost 83 percent of faculty members who participated in this week’s ballot approved the motion calling on the school’s board of trustees to rescind Trump’s…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the bill seeking to establish the Nigeria Peace Corps. The president said the functions of the corps as contained in the bill were duplication of existing security agencies. Both chambers of the National Assembly had months ago passed the bill and transmitted it to the President for…
By Amos Okioma,Yenagoa. LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal government of Nigeria and International Oil Companies operating in the Niger Delta Region has been called upon to urgently address the glaring neglect and underdevelopment as the only panacea in the region.This was contained in a press release by Wanama Onya and made available to Authority in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman/Chief Executive ofNational Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), retired Colonel Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah has called for the declaration of state of emergency over the drug situation in Nigeria. Abdullahi who made the call during the destruction ceremony of 137 tons of illicit drugs in Edo State, South- South Nigeria, which is the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sen. Dino Melaye has taken a swipe at his party for failing to meet the expectations of Nigerians. According to Vanguardngr, the senator spoke after he was conferred with the Legislator of the Year 2017 by Daily Asset Newspaper in Abuja. He said: “The APC government has become Public Complaint Commission. We…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Boko Haram terror group has killed no fewer than 2,000 teachers, displaced 19,000 others and destroyed 1,400 schools during its deadly campaign northeast of Nigeria. This emerged amid outrage by the international community after the Islamic radicals kidnapped more than 100 schoolgirls during an attack on the Bursari Government Girls Science…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Federal Government has assured Nigerian workers that they would begin to enjoy a new national minimum wage latest by end of September 2018. Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, gave the assurance at the commemoration of NLC @40 in Abuja on Monday. He said there was…
