LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has tested negative for the coronavirus but his Chief of Staff, Mr. Abba Kyari, has contracted the virus according results of tests carried out by Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. A report by THISDAY citing presidency sources said the test on the President was done after Mr. Kyari…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Germany expelled two diplomats in the Russian embassy on Wednesday, as the state prosecutor begins its investigation into the daylight assassination of a Georgian man in a Berlin park in August. The federal prosecutor took up the case earlier this week, to investigate suspected Kremlin links to the murder of 40-year-old Zelimkhan…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Germany have arrested some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who attacked Senator Ike Ekweremadu earlier today in the country. Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM made the revelation in a tweet. “I condemn in its entirety the attack on former DSP…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump threatened undefined retaliation Friday against countries and organizations that issue travel warnings on the United States because of gun violence. “If they did that, we’d just reciprocate,” Trump said during a wide-ranging impromptu gaggle with reporters at the White House, en route to fundraisers in New York. He added:…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-FC Barcelona and Argentina captain Lionel Messi has been banned from international football for three months by the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) following his claim that Copa America was corrupt. The 32-year-old forward was sent off during Argentina’s 2-1 third-place play-off defeat of Chile and he later said the competition was…
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 FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Of the 17,051 asylum applications filed before Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) in January 2019, 1,248 were filed by Nigerians, the third highest by citizens of any nation from any part of the world. January’s figure was double the number of asylum applications filed by Nigerians in December 2018…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cyprian Lwanga, Catholic archbishop of Kampala, has recommended that the Ugandan government deducts 10% from workers’ monthly salary as tithe for the church. According to Citizen Digital, the archbishop said he wanted Uganda to go the Germany route where Germans who are registered as Catholics, Protestants or Jews have a church tax…
