LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It seemed the triumph of people’s power as both chambers of the National Assembly, yesterday, buckled to strident opposition from the public and key stakeholders to the Nigeria Press Council (NPC) and National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Amendment Bill, as well as the nomination of Lauretta Onochie as Commissioner of the Independent National…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 30 suspects have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission during a raid on Parktonian Hotel in the Lekki area of Lagos State. During the raid on Tuesday, the operatives were alleged to have gained entry into the occupants’ rooms by seizing the master cards…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday opened evidence in the trial of a seven-member syndicate that allegedly defrauded customers of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) of N900 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the case is before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has offered to refund all the allowances she has received since the president assumed office in 2017. She also said that she would not accept a salary that was recently approved by the country’s parliament. She added that she did not request to be paid and had only…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Euro 2020 rosters took shape, it became quickly apparent that Juventus was going to have a large contingent competing in the upcoming tournament. There, of course, were the Italians and the man who wears the captain’s armband for the country that won the Euros the last time they were played, but…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The number of daily new COVID-19 infections has shot up almost 50 percent in the United States amid the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant — with rises even recorded in states with high vaccination rates, data shows. The US on Tuesday recorded an average of 19,455 new cases per day over the…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Worried by the rising cases of armed violence and kidnapping in Nigeria, a human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, has written an application to President Muhammadu Buhari, requesting for licence to possess a 6.147 premium AK47 assault riffle to defend himself. The lawyer, in the application dated July 8, 2021, said he…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from rioting in South Africa rose to 72 on Tuesday as police and the military tried to halt the unrest in poor areas of two provinces that began last week after the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma. Many of the deaths in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces occurred in…
