LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58. Law enforcement officials told CNN that Stewart’s body was found outdoors in the Bellevue neighborhood in northern Virginia early Saturday morning. No foul play is suspected, and officers believe a medical emergency occurred. “Alice was a…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly 900,000 tea bags from the organic tea brand Yogi are being recalled due to a detectable amount of pesticide on the product, according to an enforcement report posted on the US Food and Drug Administration’s website. The pesticides were discovered during “routine audit procedures,” Yogi said in a statement Friday. “While…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Monday Okpebholo, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 21, 2024 election in Edo State, has congratulated the Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare ll on the return of 39 stolen artefacts from Sweden. Okpebholo, in a statement on Friday morning, recalled that the artefacts were carted away…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi has said the biggest problem of Nigeria’s democracy is the judiciary and not the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Obi stated this at the fifth memorial of late Justice Anthony Aniagolu at the Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu. According to…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Bank has blacklisted 58 Nigerian companies and individuals for engaging in corrupt practices, a move which comes as part of the institution’s ongoing efforts to uphold integrity and transparency in its projects and operations. Among those affected are 39 Nigerian companies previously debarred by the African Development Bank (AfDB), along…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Storms battered Texas and Louisiana late Thursday and early Friday with destructive winds and torrential rain, leaving at least four dead, roads flooded and more than 1 million homes and businesses without power — as more floods Friday could plague parts of the Gulf Coast. At least four people died as the…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria Human Right Lawyer Chief (Barr,) Malcolm Omirhobo has condemned Federal Government approval of N90bn subsidy for the cost of pilgrimage for 2024 hajj. According to Saharareporters the Nigerian Government says it has spent the sum of N90 billion to subsidise the cost of the 2024 Hajj pilgrimage for citizens. This was…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The driver and passengers of a commercial bus scampered for safety when the vehicle conveying them burst into fire at the Falomo Bridge inward Ikoyi axis in Lagos on Thursday. Luck however smiled on the commuters as they all escaped unhurt from the bus as the inferno raged from the vehicle. Popular…
