http://ift.tt/2jTQAt0 Merkel LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term while nationalists have made a historic breakthrough in federal elections, exit polls suggest. Her conservative CDU/CSU alliance is set to remain the largest party in the parliament, with 32.5% of the vote. Its outgoing coalition partner, the social democratic…
http://ift.tt/2wQk6Bp LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government has finalized plans to shut than about twenty embassies across the world citing financial constraints and the non-viabilities of the affected embassies. Our correspondent’s investigations revealed that the government planned to do the embassies shut down in phases beginning with six while the others would follow in due…
http://ift.tt/2wfAA6p Trump LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Trump administration announced new restrictions Sunday on visitors from eight countries — an expansion of the pre-existing travel ban that has spurred fierce legal debates over security, immigration and discrimination. In announcing the new rules, officials said they are meant to be both tough and targeted. The move comes…
http://ift.tt/2xyLIhK Stephen Sarfo celebrate his first goal LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana defeated Nigeria 4-1 in the 2017 WAFU Cup of Nations final on Sunday, avenging an earlier group stage defeat to the Super Eagles and winning $100 000 in prize-money. Patrick Razak proved to be an inspired substitution for the Black Stars, with the diminutive…
http://ift.tt/2jUHxZ0 LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) has raised the alarm over militarisaton of Nigeria demoray. It said has the deployment of soldiers to tackle Biafra agitators in the South East without approvals by appropriate authorities was unconstitutional and a gradual take over of Nigeria. The group accused the military of illegal usurpation of…
http://ift.tt/2yzbPUw LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nasarawa State police has arrested one Aisha Isa, who is the second wife of her husband, for allegedly drowning the two daughters of her husband’s first wife, Sunonline reports. The two girls, 4-year-old Zainab and Ramatu, 2, were bound, hands and feet, and allegedly thrown into a well by Aisha…
http://ift.tt/2wejjue LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Government has said it does not consider the Indigenous People of Biafra a terrorist organisation. Last week, the Federal High Court in Abuja gave a judicial backing the executive order of President Muhammadu Buhari, outlawing the group and its activities in the country. The court granted the order…
http://ift.tt/2ykMdd0 Abuja: The residence of Cyril and Great James LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three individuals with residences in Abuja and Lagos own the company that has been fingered for the illegal importation of arms into the country earlier in the week, investigation by Daily Trust on Sunday has shown. The Nigeria Customs Service, on Thursday, named…