LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom Government has introduced a points-based immigration system to attract the ” brightest and the best from around the world.” A statement released by the Home Office and Secretary of State for the Home Department, Priti Patel said the new immigration system will open on January 1, 2021. Points will…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-— A man was arrested after he drove a speeding car into a pedestrian area in the western German city of Trier on Tuesday, police said, killing five people, including a 9-month-old. The crash injured at least 14 others, in addition to killing a 73-year-old woman, and the infant, Mayor of Trier,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos based human rights lawyer and one man protester, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirobo has been arrested for embarking on a one-man protest and demanding to see President, Muhhamadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. While attempting to progress into the villa, Omirobo was approached by CSP Isah Hadejia who tried…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Obasanjo Motherless Children’s Home in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The five children were said to have disappeared from the facility last Thursday night into thin air and their whereabouts have still not been traced by the Ogun State Government the owner and operator of the orphanage home. However, the state government said it…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has finally spoken on the recent defection of the Governor of Ebonyi State from PDP to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying that such political dramas should not form the focus of Nigerians, when the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Abubakar Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the killing the over 43 farmers in Zabarmari area of Borno state last weekend. In a new three minutes 37-second video released online, the sect members said they carried out the attack because the farmers arrested one of its members and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The senate has confirmed Mahmood Yakubu as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). President Muhammadu Buhari reappointed Yakubu in October. The academic is the first to be reappointed as the head of the electoral body in the country’s history. The upper legislative chamber confirmed Yakubu’s nomination after Ibrahim Gaya,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the ”overstayed” service chiefs. The resolution of the upper legislative chamber followed a motion sponsored by Kashim Shettima, senator representing Borno central. The request by the lawmakers is coming six months after they asked the service chiefs to resign. Gabriel Olonisakin, chief of…
