LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-During a joint press conference Monday between President Trump and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari — the first African president Trump has hosted at the White House — a reporter asked about that crass epithet Trump reportedly used to describe African countries. In January, reports surfaced that Trump asked a room of lawmakers…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-17-year-old pupil of a secondary school in Rumuokoro community, in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, simply identified as Abibatu was reported to have committed suicide. Abibat who was impregnated by a yet-to-be identified person was said to have taken insecticide which led to her death. Abibatu, who was angrily…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A High Court sitting at Onitsha presided over by Hon. Justice MNO Okonkwo slammed Zenith Bank Plc the sum of 11Million Naira for negligence. The plaintiff Iwuchukwu Okeke through its counsel C.J. Okeke Esq. of (TRULAW CHAMBERS) commenced the action on 17th March 2017 claiming damages for defendant’s negligence and illegal detention…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Cross River State Governor, Prof Ben Ayade, Monday, authorised the payment of 2014 gratuity to retired civil servants in the state, even as he donated N50 million to the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) for the completion of the Labour House. The governor, who was accompanied by his…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, on Monday, said recent killings of Christians in Nigeria were not acceptable to his government. “Also we have had very serious problems with Christians who are being murdered in Nigeria, we are going to be working on that problem very, very hard because…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump warmly welcomed the president of Nigeria to the White House Monday, the first high-profile meeting with a sub-Saharan African leader for a president who has previously disparaged the continent. Proclaiming a good relationship with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Trump told reporters he appreciated the nation’s role as a “strong democracy…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump said Monday that he urged Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, to remove trade barriers to allow additional US investment in the African nation. Trump noted that the United States sends more than $1 billion in foreign aid annually to Nigeria and said it should get something in return. ‘‘We think that…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two journalists — an AFP photographer and a cameraman for a local TV station – are among 21 people killed Monday morning, as suicide bombers hit Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Wahid Majroh, the public health ministry’s spokesman who gave the latest casualty tolls said at least 27 people were wounded. No…
