http://ift.tt/2iHxsee Heath Minister Adewole LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole to investigate reports of an ‘unknown disease’ that has led to the death of several children in Jigawa State. The President also directed the Minister to deploy all the necessary machinery to combat the outbreak of…
http://ift.tt/2iGfxEt Buhari LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A non-governmental organisation in Vienna, World Poverty Clock, funded by the German government and led by Homi Kharas, deputy director of the Brookings Institution in the US, and Wolfgang Fengler, a World Bank lead economist, is predicting that Nigeria will overtake India as the country with one of the world’s…
http://ift.tt/2yJuFMg LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Awards for Sporting Excellence (NASE) has been scheduled to hold on Saturday, December 2, 2017 at Airport Hotel, Ikeja Lagos. A statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday and signed by Prince Isidore Oduah, Chairman of the Award Committee, explained that the awards is designed to reward sportsmen and women…
http://ift.tt/2zuVtwK LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zimbabwe’s sacked vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, said Wednesday he had fled the country, as he issued a direct challenge to the nation’s long-ruling leader Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace. The ruling ZANU-PF party “is not personal property for you and your wife to do as you please,” Mnangagwa said in…
http://ift.tt/2yGfMu2 LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anambra State Police Commissioner CP Garba Baba Umar and INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner Anambra state, Dr Nkwachukwu has debunked the allegation making the rounds that two lorries full of sensitive election materials belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were found in a hotel in the state. National Chairman of…
http://ift.tt/2zpWfLr Its plush carpets and glittering chandeliers are fit for a prince, but for several senior Saudi royals the ballroom of the Riyadh Ritz Carlton is a gilded cage. LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Video footage emerged on Tuesday showing how the luxury hotel has been turned into a bizarre prison camp where some of the country’s…
http://ift.tt/2m32DoV Adeosun LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government is to investigate all Nigerian who have been linked to offshore accounts in some tax havens as leaked by Paradise Papers. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, disclosed on Tuesday that the government would be investigating high net-worth individuals and companies who frequent offshore tax havens….
http://ift.tt/2j7QuOD LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ekiti State House of Assembly has passed a law prescribing death penalty for anybody found guilty of engaging in cultism, while also revising upward punishments for those aiding and abetting the practice. The House also passed the 2017 Revised Appropriation bill into law at plenary on the floor of the…