LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 32-year-old Wisconsin school staffer who sexually abused a 16-year-old student — and told police she was going through “extensive personal issues” in her life at the time — has pleaded guilty. On Monday, former Green Bay school staffer Courtney Roznowski was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading no contest…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This Nov. 6 will mark 38 years president Paul Biya has clung on to power in Cameroon—making him Africa’s second longest-serving head of state, after his peer Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea. Biya, 87, became president in 1982, long before the majority of the central African country’s 25 million people were born….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, said the agency has discovered N2.67 billion meant for the school feeding programme in private accounts. The agency, he added, also found over N2.5 billion diverted by a deceased worker with the ministry of agriculture, noting that 18 buildings, 12 business…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday named the first-ever female prime minister to head the government in the West African nation. Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned on Friday. A close ally of the president, she has served as his chief-of-staff since 2009. Togo had been due for…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Maitama, Abuja has awarded N50 million damages against the Senator representing Adamawa North, Senator Elisha Abbo, to be paid as compensation to Osimibibra Warmate, a female attendant at a sex-toy shop, whom he assaulted. Justice Samira Bature gave the order in her…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, some powerbrokers in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are already mounting pressure on Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the party, to bury his rumoured presidential ambition in 2023 and queue behind Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Daily Independent has gathered. Even though Tinubu is yet…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has come under attack for suspending planned nationwide strike over the increase in petrol and electricity tariff. NLC and TUC agreed to suspend the strike on Monday morning after meeting with the federal government. The new agreement, according to the Minister of Labour and Employment (State) Festus…
By Betty Alade LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH I want to emphasize here that I am doing this as a duty to myself, the public and to God Almighty Jehovah only. I am not in support of any man but in defence of my conscience. First as a Christian who is aware of the imminent second coming…
