LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Spokesman of the senate, Ajibola Basiru, has said no member of the Nigerian senate got N20 million as COVID-19 palliatives. Basiru stated this while reacting to a statement made by the executive director of projects at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Cairo Ojugboh. Ojougboh had stated that senators and members…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, says no date has been fixed yet for full schools’ resumption despite continues talks between the Federal Government and stakeholders. Nwajiuba said this during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja. He however expressed optimism that the…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-First City Monument Bank, FCMB, has debunked reports that the sum of N573 million was mistakenly transferred into the account of Pastor Emmanuel Omale in error. Pastor Omale is an associate of the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu. The Managing Director of FCMB, Adam…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Nigeria, there has been an overwhelming amount of information on social media, websites and mainstream media about the virus. The increased access to information has led to a proliferation in sources of information, with the consequence that it has enabled the spread of misinformation…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)– The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday rejected an assertion by Tanzania’s president that coronavirus tests it supplied are faulty. Tanzania’s government spokesman said a team was conducting investigations on the laboratory that conducted the tests, and the outcome will be made public once complete….
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Air Peace said on Thursday that none of its aircraft was siezed in Atlanta, in the United States. The airline said it had no links with any airplane seized in the U.S. According to Air Peace Corporate Commumications /Media Executive, Stanley Olisa, the company does not currently have any aircraft in the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. DanMallam Muhammed, has denied reports of attack on the residence of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The Chief Press Secretary to the former Governor, Simon Ebegbulem, had raised the alarm the unknown hoodlums attacked the Benin residence of…