LAGOS APRL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nana Addo Akufo-Addo, president of Ghana, has suspended the deputy youth and sports minister, Pius Hadzie, with immediate effect over the Commonwealth athletes’ scam. A statement released on Thursday by Eugine Arhin, Director of Communication, said that also suspended is the acting director general of the National Sports Authority, Robert Mensah. The…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government on Monday constituted a 16-man committee to screen the degrees obtained by Nigerians from foreign tertiary institutions. The move, according to Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, became necessary following reported cases of fake foreign degrees said to have been obtained by Nigerians from sub-standard institutions across the continent. According…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria scored 42 out of 100 points and ranks 55 among 89 assessments in the 2017 Resource Governance Index (RGI), while Ghana’s oil and gas sector scored a satisfactory 67 of 100 points, making it the best performer in sub-Sahran Africa. Ghana has a favorable enabling environment and also performs well in…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Rallying behind the slogan of “Ghana First,” thousands of people in the West African nation have protested a new defense cooperation deal with the United States, with many in the longtime U.S. ally saying they worry the expanded military presence could attract extremists and harm their country’s sovereignty. The demonstrations…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been spotted by security agents in Ghana, TheCable reports. There has been controversy over the whereabouts of Kanu who was last seen in public in September 2017 before the military launched Operation Python Dance II and raided his home in Aba,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The search for a missing oil tanker off the coast of West Africa entered its fourth day Sunday, with no word on the fate of the 22 Indian nationals aboard the vessel. The vessel, Marine Express, was carrying more than 13,000 tons of gasoline and went missing in the Gulf of Guinea,…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s Aviation Minister Cecelia Dapaah has warned British Airways (BA) it could face sanctions, after reports of bed bugs on some of the airline’s flights into the country. A British newspaper reported this week that a BA flight to Accra was grounded at London’s Heathrow Airport for four hours, after the insects…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has summoned Stuart Symington, United States ambassador to Nigeria, over Donald Trump’s usage of a demeaning term to describe African nations. The US president is reported to have questioned why the US would want to have immigrants from “shithole countries” such as Haiti and African nations. The comment was…
