LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Thank you so much everybody. I’m indebted to Bro Ekele and bro Olagbende, and everyone on this platform. Before Sunday I had been having dreams where I saw myself fighting and evading enemies like real-time war, day in day out, like nightmares, so when my jet got shot with the explosives and…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The People’s Democratic Party, PDP caucus of the House of Representatives Tuesday called for the prosecution of the head of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC for allegedly lying to the country on the possibility of electronic transmission of election results. The Leader of the Caucus, Rep. Kingsley Chinda, made the call Today…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A pro-democracy group, Democracy Vanguard of Nigeria in Diaspora (DVND) has written a letter to the United States of America, seeking a Visa ban on Senators who voted against electronic transmission of results. Considering the report of the Committee led by Senator Kabiru Gaya on the Independent National Electoral Commission on the…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ugandan athlete who fled during pre-Olympics training in western Japan last week has been found and is being interviewed by police, officials said Tuesday. Mie prefectural police in central Japan said 20-year-old weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko was in the Yokkaichi city, 170 kilometers (105 miles) east of his host town in western…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Curious shoppers stopped to see the bizarre animal which was among many others on sale as Muslims prepare for the Islamic holiday also known as Eid El-Kabir in Nigeria. The video of the five-horned ram has gone viral with some viewers commenting that the animal appears to be wearing a crown similar…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema and other members were arrested early Wednesday ahead of a planned conference to demand constitutional reforms, the party said. Freeman Mbowe and 10 Chadema members were rounded up in the dead of night in the northwestern port city of Mwanza, it said on Twitter….
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The corruption trial of former South African president Jacob Zuma, who is currently in prison, has been postponed to August 10 as it is decided whether he must be physically present in the courtroom or can appear via video from where he is in detention. Zuma asked that his trial be postponed…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Two armed men, including one who wielded a knife, attacked Mali’s interim president Assimi Goita on Tuesday in the great mosque in the capital Bamako, an AFP journalist saw. The attack took place during prayers for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha. Goita has since been taken from the scene, according to…
