LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) has mourned the death of the Saturday Editor, the New Telegraph newspaper, Mr. Abdulwaheed Bakare. Late Bakare, it was learnt, died Sunday after a brief illness. MMPN National President, Abdur-Rahman Balogun in a statement issued late Sunday condoled with Mr. Bakare’s immediate family, describing the…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government has announced partial closure of the Marine Beach Bridge by Total Gas, inwards Apapa for five months to pave way for emergency repair works. The closure takes effect from Wednesday May 27 to Wednesday October 21. Commissioner for Transportation Dr Frederic Oladeinde who made this known on Sunday,…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A coalition of local and international anti-corruption movements have alerted Nigerians on what appears an orchestrated plot to thwart corruption charges against oil giants associated with OPL 245 scam in which the country was swindled through a cobweb of criminal gangs. In a statement on Sunday, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered Courtroom 317 of the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday to become the first serving Israeli premier to stand trial, sitting on the defendant’s bench and answering “yes” to confirm he had read the corruption charges in the three cases against him. The prime minister will be allowed…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has launched legal action against Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari at the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over the “brutal crackdown, repression, and grave violations and abuses of the human rights of the people of Rivers…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Rivers State government and he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are throwing counter allegations as the anti-graft agency is requesting for the interrogation and the release of three officials of the Rivers State Government, who are implicated in the alleged illegal withdrawal of N118billion public funds. Their action is said…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari may have pulled a fast one on state governors with Friday’s signing of Executive Order No. 10 of 2020 which grants financial autonomy to State legislature and the judiciary. Many governors were left shocked by the president’s action coming so soon after the financial autonomy granted local governments by…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS) – President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday a further easing of South Africa’s coronavirus lockdown from June 1, allowing the vast majority of the economy to return to full capacity. Africa’s most industrialised economy has been largely shut down since late March, when the government enforced severe restrictions to stem the…
