LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by military spokesperson Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu. Major General Yahaya replaces Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a military plane crash last Friday. Prior to his appointment,…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France has condemned the ousting of transitional leaders in Mali who had been tasked with steering the return to civilian rule after a coup last August. Calling the ousters a “coup d’etat”, President Emmanuel Macron threatened sanctions by the European Union. “We are ready in the coming hours to take targeted sanctions” against those responsible, Macron said in Brussels…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senegalese-American singer, Akon’s car was stolen from a gas station on Monday night, May 24 in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. The car was reportedly stolen as the singer was pumping gas into his car. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Akon stopped at a Quiktrip gas station to fill his white Range Rover up…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 19-year-old Ugandan woman accused of obtaining money through false pretense by faking a pregnancy has died after collapsing in court. The deceased identified as Olivia Nassanga on Wednesday, May 26, collapsed in Mityana Magistrate’s Court where she had reported for her bail application, following her release from Mityana Prison. According to the…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti has said that division of Nigeria can be achieved without going to war or killing one another. The activist and leader of Movement of The People (MOP) noted instead of choosing destruction to achieve Yoruba Nation or Biafra, the people should negotiate to achieve a common goal. He…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group known as the Muslim Congress has submitted a memo to the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, proposing the implementation of Sharia in the southwest region. The Islamic religious law is implemented in Muslim-majority states in the Northern region, despite the constitutional provision that states be secular….
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has claimed that the Ebonyi State Government and the police command in the state lied over the detonated ‘bomb’ which killed a policeman on Tuesday. DAILY POST had reported that an explosion occurred opposite Amizi Amangbala Primary School in Afikpo North in Ebonyi State…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately order the suspension of the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, to enable him face the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged looting of N1.5 trillion and $9.5 million dollars…
