LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The omicron variant of COVID-19, which had been undetected in the U.S. before the middle of this week, had been discovered in at least five states by the end of Thursday, showing yet again how mutations of the virus can circumnavigate the globe with speed and ease. Just a day after the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A surgeon in Austria has been fined after amputating the wrong leg of a patient earlier this year. The elderly patient’s right leg was removed instead of his left, with the mistake only discovered two days later. On Wednesday, the court in Linz found the 43-year-old guilty of gross negligence and fined…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Libyan court ruled on Thursday that the son of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi could run for president, his lawyer said, as arguments intensified over the conduct of an election aimed at ending a decade of turmoil. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s appeal against disqualification for the Dec. 24 vote was delayed for…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Senate President, Joseph Wayas, has died in a London hospital, the Cross River State Government announced on Thursday. The Second Republic Senate President who had been receiving medical attention for some time passed away at the age of 80. Reacting, Governor Ben Ayade said Dr Wayas who died on November 30,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has passed a resolution to invite the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Mahmood Yakubu to brief the House on the cost of conducting direct primaries in the country. The motion to invite the INEC boss was raised by Representative Leke Abejide who informed the House that…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday rescheduled the trial of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from January 19 to 18, 2022. The shift in the trial date followed the abridgement of time granted by the Judge following a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The proposed Kano State Secretariat of the the Ahmadu Zago faction of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) recently confirmed as the authentic one by an Abuja High Court has been burnt down. The building, which serves as the campaign office of Sen. Barau Jibrin, a governorship hopeful and an arch-opponent of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Some influential Nigerians are working to undermine electronic voting, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said. According to INEC, some persons are working hard to undermine the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for future elections. This is coming just as the commission has also raised the alarm over…
