LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead Of her visit to Nigeria, British Prime Minister, Theresa May, says 87 million Nigerians, about half of the country’s population, live below “$1 and 90 cents a day”. Speaking in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday, May said Nigeria is home to highest number of very poor people, more than any…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has released its schedule of activities and time-table for the 2019 general elections and has announced the commencement of sale of forms. This was disclosed in a statement by the party’s National Organizing Secretary, Col. Austin Akonbundu. Aside Osun State, due to the Sept. 22 Gubernatorial election…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Detectives attached to Ijanikin Police Station of the Lagos State Command have arrested a ‘mentally deranged’ couple in possession of various human parts and who resides under a bridge at Cele NICA bus stop, Ojo on the Mile 2 – Badagary expressway. The incident caused panic as residents besieged the place to…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As British Prime Minister Theresa May visits Nigeria and two other African countries this week, the country reported it had returned £70 million recovered from a Nigerian, who was convicted of fraud by an Italian court. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Paul Arkwright, said in Abuja: “There was an Italian…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The only Christian girl among the students Boko Haram abducted from Government Girls Secondary School in Dapchi, Yobe State, Leah Sharibu has reportedly spoken from the den of the terrorists. Sharibu appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to save her from the terrorists. Following the public outcry that followed the abduction of the…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Both Nigerians and the world have continued to react to the shocking statement published on the Financial Times, on Monday, alleging the United States President, Donald Trump referred to the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari as ‘lifeless’. In the report, it read “Donald Trump will welcome Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta to the White House…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has fired back at the United States President, Donald Trump over alleged claims by the American leader referring to the Nigerian president as “lifeless”. The reaction which came through the Buhari Media Organisation BMO was in response to Monday’s report by the Financial Times that the American President had…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of workers under of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) of the Lagos State Government on Monday, staged a protest at the office of Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode. The workers, who chanted solidarity songs and displayed banners with different inscriptions said that they are being owed salaries for July and Aug. 2018. Inscriptions…