LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Women’s affairs ministers from Commonwealth countries, including representatives from Nigeria, have committed to a roadmap yesterday, designed to scale up efforts to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls, especially in climate action. The roadmap was the result of three-day deliberations among ministers at their triennial Commonwealth meeting in The Bahamas…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Philomina Ngozi Christopher-Oji is the chief executive officer of Phil Chris Media Company, Lagos, Nigeria, and publisher of Cornerstonenewsng.com. The former banker-cum-interior decorator turned journalist has linked the ritual killings and sudden disappearances of citizens to the government and its agents. In this telephone interview with journalists, as she has gone underground…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that he had warned Russian mercenary chiefs Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin to watch out for possible threats to their lives, and he insisted that Wagner fighters would remain in Belarus. President Putin initially vowed to crush Prigozhin’s June mutiny, comparing it to the wartime…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said a swift, peaceful restoration of democratic order in neighboring Niger is crucial and that he is pushing back against pressure to apply military force. “Even as of this morning, I have been inundated with phone calls on the readiness of countries with their military force and contributions,”…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Niger’s military rulers, who seized control of the government in July, gave the French ambassador 48 hours to leave the country, Niamey’s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. Relations between the new regime in Niamey and several Western powers, as well as the West African bloc ECOWAS, have deteriorated since the…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)=A former Customary Court of Appeal President, Mrs Margaret Igbeta has been killed in her home located at Wantor Kwange Street in Makurdi metropolis. Igbeta who is now 72 was found dead in a pool of her blood on Thursday night in one of her rooms. Reports of her assassination on Friday…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan says she will be back stronger next year after losing the world women’s 100m hurdles crown to Jamaica’s Danielle Williams on Thursday in Budapest. In an interview with journalists after the game, Amusan said, it was quite “a journey getting into the final” despite all she had gone through…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has come under fire as 17 vessels and helicopters it acquired in 2019 to fight insecurity on Nigerian waters have not yet been deployed, SaharaReporters has learnt. Sources told SaharaReporters that apart from the fact that the kind of vessels imported…
