LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A New Zealand court has sentenced a man who killed 51 people at two mosques to life in prison without parole, the first person in the country’s history to receive this sentence. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 29, admitted to the murder of 51 people, attempted murder of another 40 people and one charge…
In an interview, Austin Avuru, CEO, Seplat Petroleum Development Company, speaks on the impact of Covid-19 and falling oil prices on Nigeria’s economy. How is Nigeria’s oil and gas industry faring in the face of the current pandemic? AUSTIN AVURU : The combination of the current pandemic and the rapid decline in demand for crude oil…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election and former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, speaks on the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2023 elections and other issues. Excerpts: How would you assess the way the Federal Government has handled the COVID-19 pandemic? The…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-In this interview,Veteran singer Majek Fashek’s manager, Omenka Uzoma talks about the ordeal he went through while the singer was seriously sick..He also reveal the Singer’s present location and health status and how the family ganged up against him…. Last year, Majek Fashek was suddenly flown to the UK for medical treatment,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, fielded questions at the African Economic Congress in Abuja last week on the theme: “Building the Africa we want.” The former running mate to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the February 2019 presidential elections spoke on a number of important issues,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In March 1993, four editors of TheNEWS magazine were sent to Ikoyi Prison by Justice Olugbani of the Lagos High Court, where they spent one week over an alleged ‘criminal libel case’. A dividend of the detention was being incarcerated in the same prison space with Fela, who was then facing a…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In an interview with VOA Hausa Service in Washington DC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar said stories that he was banned from the United States was ‘disinformation’. He also confirmed that the United States is in support of his candidacy. He spoke on Thursday, after his arrival to the US capital, where he lodged…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)— Many people around the world are familiar with Aliko Dangote, a Nigerian who is often described as Africa’s richest man. But Isabel dos Santos, 45, an Angolan businesswoman, is Africa’s richest woman and the eldest child of Angola’s former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who was in power from 1979 to…