LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The decision to amend the Nigeria Police Act 2020, which the National Assembly effectively did on Tuesday is tearing the force apart as senior officers have moved against it. Already, there are grumbles and expressions of dissent with some going as far as warning that loyalty and hard work in the face…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President of the United States of America, Mr. Joe Biden, has bestowed on the General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (Worldwide), Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, with the US President’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Collins Edomaruse, the recipient’s media aide, said in a statement that Dr. Olukoya and his wife, Dr….
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-NNPC Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, says he does not own a blending plant in Malta, adding that he does not know of any employee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited who owns such a facility in the island country in Europe. Kyari, in a Tuesday post on X (formerly…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina, yesterday waded into the ongoing public squabble between the President of the Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), Alhaji Aliko Dangote and the management of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA). Expressing his opinion on the matter, Adesina described the…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amnesty International, global human rights body, has lambasted the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government for threatening to unleash mayhem on peaceful #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters. The Special Assistant to President Tinubu on Social Media, Dada Olusegun, had warned Nigerians planning nationwide protests against hardship in the country to stay off the streets. Olusegun had…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The number of people killed in landslides in southern Ethiopia has risen to at least 146, local officials have said. Two incidents are thought to have occurred on Sunday evening and Monday morning, after heavy rains in a remote mountainous area of the Gofa zone. The local authority said the search for…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has urged young people not to join nationwide cost-of-living protests planned for next week, saying they are the work of “sinister” people “capitalising” on the country’s economic woes. Organisers are said to have drawn inspiration from events in Kenya. Protesters in the East African nation are now calling…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Mr. Peter Obi has demanded from the Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy to the President, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the retraction of his allegation, linking him to the planned mass protest being planned for August. Recall that the Presidential Spokesperson…
