LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Eminent Scientist and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Oye Ibidapo-Obe is expected to be the main speaker at the talk shop of a two-day Roundtable on Research Funding for research institutions in Nigeria billed to come up in Abuja on April 17 and 18, 2018. Also expected at…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian-born British boxer Anthony Joshua has added the WBO belt to his collection of titles with a win over Joseph Parker. For the first time Joshua was forced to go the distance – but was unanimously declared the winner with a wide margin on the judges’ scorecards: 118-110 twice and 119-109. After…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer were reported tohave died s died on Saturday when a building collapsed in Agege area of Lagos State. Many other persons were said to have been injured in the incident, Eagles Online reports. According to available information, the building is located in Abeje area of Agege. The injured have been…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to a list released by the Federal Government indicting its members as ‘top treasury looters’. The PDP in a press statement by its National Chairman, Uche Secondus, on Friday released a counter list containing Governors, Senators, Ministers and other top All Progressives Congress Chieftains. It…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere; a Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed; and the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, among others, came down heavily on the Federal Government over the release of a looters’ list containing just six names. They described the list as laughable while accusing the government and…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NESRANGERS)-The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Uche Secondus, has challenged the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to be ready to proof his allegation that the he collected N200m from the purse of the National Security Adviser (NSA). Secondus gave the threat in a statement issued…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Friday, threatened to expose individuals in the fold of the ruling All progressives Congress, APC, indicted to have looted their state resources. It also said that the looted funds were massively deployed for the electioneering campaigns of President Muhammadu Buhari in the last 2015 general polls. “We…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia on Friday expelled diplomats from 23 countries in a wave of retaliatory measures against the West in a spy row, the biggest wave of tit-for-tat expulsions in recent memory. The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that it had summoned the heads of missions from 23 countries earlier to tell…
