LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The UK police on Friday questioned a former presidential aide Reno Omokri over his protest against President Muhammadu Buhari in London tagged #HarassBuhariOutOfLondon. Buhari is in London on a medical trip. He is expected back in Nigeria in the second week of April. Mr Omokri, a vocal critic of the Buhari administration,…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt could be lining up a $1bn claim in damages after the 20,388 teu Ever Given giant container vessel caused a headline grabbing traffic jam in the Suez Canal for almost a week. Ossama Rabei, the head of Suez Canal Authority, told Egypt’s Sada ElBalad news channel he estimates the $1bn figure…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Nigerian beauty queen and doctoral student in Philadelphia has been shot dead while sitting in her car in front of her family’s home, and now her parents are hiding out of fear for their lives. Najeebat Sule, 24, known to her loved ones as Najee, was killed shortly before 6pm…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has described as “widespread and pervasive” the manifestation of corruption under President Muhammadu Buhari. The U.S. in its 2020 annual report on human rights said Mr Buhari’s government has failed to take action to stem widespread looting using existing laws that criminalise theft in public service. “Although the law…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected thief who burgled a church building has been nabbed, after he got trapped in a hole he followed to gain access to the building. The suspect identified as Agyasuo reportedly burgled a Catholic Church building in Techimantia, Tano South, Ghana. It was learnt that the suspect created a hole inside…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army with tens of thousands of augmented reality headsets based on the company’s HoloLens tech. This contract could be worth as much as $21.88 billion over 10 years, the company says. Microsoft will be fulfilling an order for…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria hopes to receive up to 70 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine this year through the African Union (AU), its primary healthcare chief told Reuters, amid concerns about delayed deliveries of AstraZeneca shots. Rolling out vaccines in developing nations such as Nigeria, whose 200 million-strong population is Africa’s…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-International Criminal Court appeals judges on Wednesday upheld the acquittals of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo and former minister Charles Ble Goude on charges of involvement in deadly post-election violence. Both were acquitted in 2019 of responsibility for crimes including murder, rape and persecution following disputed elections in 2010, with judges…
