LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian-based foremost American radio presenter, Dan Foster is dead. Details of his death are sketchy as of the time of filing this report. Reacting to Foster’s death, popular broadcaster, Frank Edoho, tweeted, “I just got off the phone, my friend Oscar confirmed that Dan Foster has passed on. “This is a very…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, has insisted that the new increment on electricity tariff would take off in July. He stated this on Tuesday at the Investigative Public Hearing on Power Sector Recovery Plan and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic organised by the Senate Committee on Power. Mamman said COVID-19 pandemic…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief yesterday, Monday, June 15, 2020, released the report of its “inquiry into the ongoing violence between farmers and herders in Nigeria”. In the report to be found at https://appgfreedomofreligionorbelief.org/nigeria-unfolding-genocide-new-appg-report-launched/ the UK parliamentarians said that during their fact-finding mission to Nigeria, they…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has declared that travelers to Nigeria are now required to submit their passports with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) for two weeks pending the verification of their COVID-19 status. The directive is contained in a circular addressed to all diplomatic, consular and international organisations accredited to Nigeria in line…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has condemned in the strongest terms the incessant killing of Nigerians on the country’s highways. Obi was reacting to the killing, on Thursday, of a popular Kogi-based businessman, Mr. Chuks Ofodile, along the Gegu-Koton Federal Highway…
By Soji Adeleye LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This is a very unique moment in human history. The first time in our lifetime fear is the common denominator, when there are no superpowers, no segmentation of humanity. It is humbling to observe how inconsequential the human race is. Imagine for a moment if there were no scientists…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria chartered a special flight between Abuja and Dhaka on Sunday to collect a small dose of the Bangladesh-produced anti-viral drug remdesivir in an effort to treat one of its officials suffering from Covid-19, officials in Dhaka said. Dpa International reported that the plane returned home nearly 20 minutes after landing at…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Sunday, announced that the country has recorded 260 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 12,486. The NCDC disclosed this on its verified Twitter handle and website on Sunday night. The centre also said that the number…
