LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Dr Goodluck Jonathan has urged African Union (AU) to set minimum acceptable standards for appointing the leadership of electoral commissions as a means of building citizen confidence and ensuring credibility of elections on the continent. The former President stated this on Friday at the International Leadership Conference in Johannesburg, South…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Television Authority has been removed from the largest digital satellite television service platform in Europe, Sky Limited. A visit to Sky’s website showed that NTA had been barred indefinitely from airing on Channel 794. A message on Sky’s website read in part, “794: NTA International; currently temporarily removed from EPG…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police have arrested the leader of a notorious cult group in the Ikorodu area of the state along with 20 others. The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, confirmed this in a statement issued on Friday. According to him, the arrest was made after the Force received a…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three Britons have died of food poisoning after eating pre-packaged sandwiches, UK health authorities said on Friday, stressing that the risk to the wider public remained “low”. The patients died of listeriosis, a rare bacterial infection that is especially dangerous for people with weak immune systems or pregnant women. The listeria bacteria…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The outgoing Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday reflected on his four-year tenure as the head of the nation’s legislature and urged his colleagues to be wary of the transient nature of power. He also reviewed the relationship between the executive and the legislature as well as his travails and concluded that…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice-President and 2019 election Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the suspension of the license of Daar Communication Plc, promoter of AIT, RAY POWER FM by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Atiku made the reaction in a series of tweets on his official and…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was outrage in Akure, the Ondo State capital, over the alleged assault of a 68-year old woman, Mrs. Felicia Akindurotoye, and a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Felix Solomon, by a Judge of Federal Court of Appeal, Justice Folayemi Omoleye. The incident, according to several eyewitnesses, happened…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has condemned the behaviour of troops of the AFN, captured in a trending video, who allegedly maltreated some suspected armed bandits and kidnappers arrested along the Abuja Kaduna highway, describing it as unprofessional. According to a statement by the Acting Director, Defence information, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu on Wednesday,…
