LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With three years to go until the official opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, Birmingham 2022 has announced today its commitment to organising a ‘Games for Everyone’, that enables the city and the West Midlands to take advantage of the most significant opportunity it has ever had to showcase the region to…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS The University of Port Harcourt Alumni Association has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the nomination of two illustrious, people-focused and credible alumni of the unique University as members of the Federal Executive Council as Ministers in his cabinet. In a statement issued to NewsRangers Abuja correspondent, the Association noted with deep…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JUY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ijaw Youths under the auspices of Defender of Izon Nation (DIN) on Sunday urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to jettison the idea of using Gov Nyisom Wike to conduct Bayelsa guber primaries. The DIN, an Ijaw pressure group comprising militants and non militants known in the creeks as…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirteen days after abducting Mrs Beauty Siasia, the 76-year-old mother of ex-Super Eagles striker, Samson Siasia, the kidnappers have yet to free the septuagenarian and two other women abducted alongside her. Beauty was kidnapped at her Odoni family compound in the Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State by unknown gunmen on…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some traditional rulers in the South-West have been accused of inviting herdsmen from foreign countries to settle in their domains. They allegedly harboured herdsmen from West African countries in the Oke Ogun area of Oyo State and other parts of Yorubaland. A former Director, Directorate of Military Intelligence, Col. Kunle Toogun (retd.),…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria forward Henry Onyekuru tied the knot with his spouse in a traditional wedding on Saturday. The 22-year-old was joined by international teammates including Oghenekaro Etebo, John Ogu, Chidozie Awaziem and Kenneth Omeruo in Benin to celebrate his marriage. A week ago, Onyekuru was a member of the Nigeria squad that finished…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWRANGERS)-Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome, has faulted the Friday’s order of the Federal High Court in Abuja proscribing the Islamic Movement in Nigeria popularly known as Shiites. Ozekhome in a statement sent to our correspondent said the court’s ruling which also declared the Shiite movement as a terrorist group was…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, also know as Shiites, has described the application by the ban on the activities of the sect as unconstitutional. The Federal Government had, on Friday, obtained an ex parte order from a Federal High Court in Abuja, banning the activities of the sect. Justice Nkeonye Maha,…
