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http://ift.tt/2wYJhoO LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The recently elected executives of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) on Friday visited Nigeria’s seat of power, Aso Rock. The GOCOP team, led by its new President, Dotun Oladipo, was received by the Special Adviser to the President on Media, Mr. Femi Adesina, as well as Mallam Garba Shehu,…

http://ift.tt/2wOnIYP LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate Committee Chairman on Navy, Senator Isah Hamma Misau, has responded to the allegation by the police that he deserted the Force. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Jimoh Moshood, had on Sunday, lambasted the lawmaker, accusing him of deserting the Police Force in 2010 upon his redeployment to Niger…

http://ift.tt/2vzSKzq LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll has climbed to six in Texas amid the “epic and catastrophic” flooding left behind in the southeast part of the state from Hurricane Harvey. On Monday evening, Houston’s Mayor Sylvester Turner confirmed three deaths in Houston. Three other storm-related deaths occurred in La Marque, East Montgomery County and…

http://ift.tt/2xH4QY9 Governor Obaseki at the Edo fertilizer and chemical company before it was rehabilitated by WACOT Limited, in collaboration with the Edo State Government. LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Government and WACOT Limited will receive the Vice President of Nigeria – Professor Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday, August 29, 2017, to commission the Edo State…

http://ift.tt/2wMXl5w LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has declared Friday, September 1 and Monday September 4, 2017 as public holidays to mark Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, who made the declaration on behalf of the federal government, congratulated Muslims and all Nigerians to use the occasion to pray for peace, unity, prosperity…

http://ift.tt/2vlttgt An Indian spiritual guru, who calls himself Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan, was convicted of rape. LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mobs rampaged across a north Indian state on Friday, leaving 28 people dead and more than 250 others injured, after a court declared a quasi-religious sect leader guilty of raping two of…

http://ift.tt/2whPARZ LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations World Food Programme yesterday suspended food distribution to Internally Displaced Persons in Borno following an attack on its partners at Gubio camp in Maiduguri on Friday. .Angry IDPs had attacked the humanitarian workers of the International Medical Corp, an international NGO, over the food rations the NGO was…

http://ift.tt/2wCv8hD Sagay LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has slammed the #OurMumuDonDo protesters over their demand for the repatriation of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, from the United Kingdom. Diezani is being investigated for corruption in both Nigeria and the US. The…