LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian veteran sports journalist and retired Director Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Akinloye Oyebanj, has died at the age of 62. His family confirmed to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Oyebanji, passed on at National Hospital, Abuja, on Saturday morning after protracted battle with heart failure. Mr Bukoye Oyebanji and Dr Steve…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Monrovia, Liberia received the country’s highest award and expressed his resolve to continue to strengthen cooperation within the West African sub region. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman, who confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja, said Buhari was honoured during the 172nd independence anniversary…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Nigerians living in London on Friday, July 26, stormed the Iranian embassy to protest the activities of the members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria across the Federal Capital Territory. The Nigerians under the aegis of Concerned Nigerians in the United Kingdom during the protest warned the Iranian embassy to stop…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bahrain executed on Saturday three men convicted in two separate cases, one involving the killing of a police officer and the other the killing of a mosque imam, the public prosecutor said in a statement. Rights groups identified two of the men as Shi’ite activists Ali al-Arab and Ahmed al-Malali, who were…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National President of the National Union of Local Government Employees, Ibrahim Khaleel, said the state governments had come up with another means of taking money from the local governments’ accounts despite the financial guidelines issued by the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit to them not to tamper with local governments’ funds again….
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has obtained a court order to proscribe the Shiites’ organisation formally referred to as the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the proscription of the Shiites’ movement as protests by the Islamic organisation rock Abuja. Saturday PUNCH reports that Justice Nkeonye Maha…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A five-year-old girl, kidnapped by an acquaintance simply identified as Ahmed in their Akemfa 1 area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State residence on June 10, has been found in a hotel room in Kaduna, where she was left by the kidnapper after collecting N1 million ransom. Mrs Williams Koroye, the victim’s mother, who…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border even though lawmakers refused to provide funding. The conservative-majority court on a 5-4 vote with…
