LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A WhatsApp Platform, Katsina City News, has raised donations totalling N5.1 million to assist the needy during the Ramadan fasting period. Danjuma Muhammad-Katsina, Founder of the platform, confirmed this development to the News Agency of Nigeria. Muhammad-Katsina, who spoke on Wednesday in Katsina, explained that members of the platform were indigenes of…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has congratulated Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on his election victory. This was even as Zelensky invited him to his war-ravaged country of Ukraine on a state visit. The felicitation is coming two months after the former Lagos governor was declared winner of the contentious presidential…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has directed the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Department of Finance and Administration to coordinate the Force Secretary for the setting up of Departmental Selection Board (DSB) for the screening and selection of deserving members of the Inspectorate cadre for recommendation…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In an urgency resolution the European Parliament has called for the release of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a young Nigerian musician sentenced to death under the blasphemy law of Kano state, northern Nigeria. The resolution “recalls that blasphemy laws are in clear breach of international human rights” and “contrary to the Nigerian Constitution which…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of people were killed in a crowd surge in Yemen’s capital on Wednesday as needy residents in the war-torn nation flocked to receive charity handouts from local merchants during the holy month of Ramadan, officials have confirmed. Video of the tragedy in Sanaa showed a chaotic scene with dozens of people…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Florida lawmakers have approved legislation backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that would permit the death penalty for those convicted of sexually abusing children. The bipartisan proposal — which passed by a vote of 34-5 late Tuesday — will also allow juries to hand down death sentences by votes of at least 8-4,…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian investigative journalist and Global Peace Ambassador and Hunter of Corrupt politicians, Mr. Jackson Ude has alleged that President elect, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose whereabout has been unknown since he travelled out of the country has been hospitalized at the American Hospital in Paris. In a tweet, the journalist on Tuesday,…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos, has arrested a female graduate, Chioma Atuonah, for allegedly defrauding a 50-year-old German of $220,000, after promising to marry him. The spokesperson for the unit, SP Eyitayo Johnson, who confirmed the arrest in a statement on Wednesday, said the suspect lured the victim on Instagram…
