LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Congress of Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners (CONMMEP) has elected a new executive team to steer the affairs of the organization for another three years. The election which was held at Preston Hotel Ijesha, Lagos on Thursday February 27th, 2025, saw Comrade Udo Onyeka, Publisher of News Business, emerged as the new…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico’s first woman president in an historic landslide win. Mexico’s official electoral authority said preliminary results showed the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City winning between 58% and 60% of the vote in Sunday’s election. That gives her a lead of about 30 percentage points over…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sri Lankan acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe was selected by Parliament Wednesday as the country’s new leader, after widespread protests ousted the unpopular Gotabaya Rajapaksa earlier in July. His elevation is likely to spark further backlash from the public, who see him part as of the political elite and an ally of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zambia’s parliament has elected its first female speaker, days after new President Hakainde Hichilema began shaking up the government by firing security commanders and promising economic reforms. Earlier this month the long-time opposition leader was elected after campaigning to break with the past. Since his inauguration on Aug. 24, Hichilema has tried…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line conservative judge under U.S. sanctions, easily won Iran’s presidential election on Saturday amid record-low voter turnout. With about 90 percent of the votes counted, Raisi had received 17.8 million of the 28.6 million ballots cast. Raisi’s political rivals, former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei and moderate Abdolnasser Hemmati…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barcelona members elected Joan Laporta as club president on Sunday, turning to the man who oversaw one of their most successful periods to lead them out of an institutional and financial crisis. Laporta, who was Barca president between 2003 and 2010, won a resounding 54.28% of total votes, while Victor Font came…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Anambra State and the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mr. Peter Obi has assured Nigerians that the country can achieve self-sufficiency in food production. Obi who gave the assurance while speaking to journalists during a seminar organised by Zero Hunger Initiative in Sokoto on…