LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has conceded defeat in the country’s general elections as the trends showed that the Opposition Labour Party had won over 300 seats, while Sunak’s Conservative Party is ahead on 61. “The Labour Party has won this general election, and I’ve called Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leke Adeboye, son of Enoch Adeboye, the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Thursday apologised to pastors of the church for referring to them as ‘goats.’ ‘I wish to use this medium to tender my unreserved apologies on the statement made from my social media handle about some…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRAGERS)-On Tuesday night in Abuja, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu granted audience to a delegation of women from Lagos and across the country attending the All Progressives Congress Women Conference. While charging the women to check the status of their voting cards and mobilise supporters to vote, he mistakenly used the word ‘expire’ instead…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The apps, owned by Facebook, stopped working Monday for millions of users across the U.S., according to outage site Down Detector. Both the mobile and web browser editions of the apps were not working as of 11:42 a.m. ET, the site reported. They were down for more than six hours. “To the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria government on Friday apologised for the misleading information it published about the recent directive on self-certification form. “We apologize for the misleading tweets (now deleted) that went up yesterday, regarding the completion of self-certification forms by Reportable Persons,” the Nigeria government tweeted on Friday morning. “The message contained in the Federal…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nation newspaper has apologised to Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, for publishing a report claiming that he was paid N28m to handle a case by the suspended Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu. In a rejoinder on Tuesday, the newspaper said that Falana did not also…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Employment Labour and Productivity, Senate Chris Ngige, on Tuesday, apologised to the National Assembly over the recent altercation between the Minister of State for Labour, Mr. Festus Keyamo SAN, and a joint committee of the National Assembly over-sighting the ministry. Keyamo had disagreed with the joint committee on the…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has apologised to Nigeria after a building inside the Nigerian High Commission compound in Accra was demolished. Mr Akufo-Addo has ordered an investigation, a statement from the Nigerian government said after his call with President Muhammadu Buhari. Armed men reportedly stormed the compound last week and destroyed buildings…