LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja assured UK Prime Minister Theresa May of his commitment to conducting free, fair and credible elections in 2019. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, in a statement, said Buhari gave the assurance during a bilateral meeting with the visiting Prime…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Gombe State have recovered the sum of $4,000 (about N1.3million) from a 19-year old following his arrest in Pindiga town of Akko Local Government Area of the state. The arrest of the suspect, Idris Abubakar, was confirmed in a press statement issued in Gombe on Wednesday by the command’s…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil rights organisation under the aegis of Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CMN), on Wednesday warned President Muhammadu Buhari to cancel any reciprocal visit by President Donald Trump of United States that might have been planned or suggested in connection with his visit to US in April. According to the organisation, the…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A top Catholic Church figure is calling on Pope Francis to resign after another official published a letter accusing senior Vatican officials of covering up widespread sexual abuse for decades. “I do think it’s about limiting the days of this pope, and short of that, neutering his voice or casting ambiguity around…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead Of her visit to Nigeria, British Prime Minister, Theresa May, says 87 million Nigerians, about half of the country’s population, live below “$1 and 90 cents a day”. Speaking in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday, May said Nigeria is home to highest number of very poor people, more than any…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has released its schedule of activities and time-table for the 2019 general elections and has announced the commencement of sale of forms. This was disclosed in a statement by the party’s National Organizing Secretary, Col. Austin Akonbundu. Aside Osun State, due to the Sept. 22 Gubernatorial election…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Detectives attached to Ijanikin Police Station of the Lagos State Command have arrested a ‘mentally deranged’ couple in possession of various human parts and who resides under a bridge at Cele NICA bus stop, Ojo on the Mile 2 – Badagary expressway. The incident caused panic as residents besieged the place to…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As British Prime Minister Theresa May visits Nigeria and two other African countries this week, the country reported it had returned £70 million recovered from a Nigerian, who was convicted of fraud by an Italian court. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Paul Arkwright, said in Abuja: “There was an Italian…
