LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Dolly Parton was twice offered the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the Trump administration, but turned it down, she revealed on Monday. “I couldn’t accept it because my husband was ill,” she told “Today” in an interview set to air on Tuesday. “And then they asked me again about it and I…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has said attempts to make him head of Operation Amotekun, a South-West Security Network, are “embarrassing”. Igboho stated this during an Instagram Live Chat with media mogul, Dele Momodu, on Tuesday. He had asked herdsmen in Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo…
By Tokunboh Aremu Odua LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-CSP Francis Osagie Erhabor, the policeman and divisional police officer (DPO) in charge of ‘D’ division Itam in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom state, who is acclaimed to have never taken a bribe since over 30 years in active service, has resigned from the profession. Erhabor, who…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Judges across the country are rejecting arguments made by President Donald Trump’s campaign and Republican leaders claiming voter fraud. For months, Trump’s unsubstantiated claims have formed the centerpiece of his assault on the integrity of the election. At one point he claimed in May that “there is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate, on Wednesday, stressed its opposition to the granting of amnesty to acclaimed repentant Boko Haram insurgents, saying some of them masterminded recent attack in Damboa, Borno State in which several persons, including an army General was killed. Members of the Committee on Army, who briefed newsmen shortly after the budget defence,…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party (ANDP) has distanced itself from the petition that led to the nullification of the November 16, 2019 governorship election in Bayelsa State by the election tribunal. Besides, the party had vowed to contest the Judgment of the tribunal at the Court of Appeal as an interested party….
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) rejects out rightly the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 that was assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari recently. By implications, he has repealed the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990 (1). The law, to say the least is unacceptable, ungodly, reprehensible and…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress Has kicked against the new fuel price of N143.8 announced by the Petroleum Product Price Regulatory Agency on Wednesday, saying “this might just be the last straw that would break the camel’s back.” The congress demanded a reversal of the pump price to the old price, arguing that…