LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has said that he is not bothered about being re-elected in 2023. In a chat with journalists in Lafia, the state capital, to mark his first anniversary in office, the governor said he was grateful to God for giving him a four-year mandate; a period he deems…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A thirty- five-year old woman, Bose Abiodun, who is a mother of four children spent over two years in Ilesha Prison (Correctional Centre) after her husband, Femi under was under trial for manslaughter flee, according a an exclusive interview she granted The Punch recently. The husband Femi who is a native of…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected “mad man” has reportedly been nabbed with a dead baby in Aba. The man who was seen being dragged into a van by security operatives, attracted lots of attention after being caught with the dead baby. Some of those who gathered at the scene of the incident, were heard saying…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Office in Nigeria have denied knowledge of the carving out of a country from Nigeria and Cameroon. The new country whose name is UNO State of Cameroon was billed for proclamation by the United Nations on July 10, 2020. The local government of the…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 election, Mr Peter Obi, has described as a curse, Nigeria’s total dependence on oil revenue which, he said, has stopped people from critical thinking and innovating new ways to diversify the economy and generate more revenue. Obi made this known while…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France says it has killed the leader of al-Qaeda in North Africa, Abdelmalek Droukdel, in an operation in Mali. Defence Minister Florence Parly said Droukdel along with members of his inner circle had been killed in the north of the country on Wednesday. French forces had also captured a senior Islamic State…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Madagascar’s education minister has been fired over plans to order more than $2m (£1.6m) worth of sweets for schoolchildren. Rijasoa Andriamanana said pupils would be given three lollipops each to mask the “bitter” aftertaste of an untested herbal remedy for coronavirus. The plan was called off after objections from Madagascar’s president. President…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US President Donald Trump has approved a plan to withdraw 9,500 American troops from bases in Germany by September, US media say. Mr Trump, who has long complained that European members of Nato should spend more on their own defence, reportedly wants US troop levels capped at 25,000. Troops would either be…
