LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eighteen female guards have been fired for having illicit affairs with inmates at a cell in Britain. It was discovered that the relationships took place over the past six years at HMP Berwyn, Britain’s biggest prison, Daily Mail reported on Sunday. Chair of the Prison Officers’ Association, Mark Fairhurst, blamed the relationships…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian author, Onyeka Nwelue, has had his Academic Visitor status at the University of Oxford terminated after misusing the university logos and premises for commercial purposes, an investigation by Cherwell has found. Cherwell is a weekly student newspaper published entirely by students of Oxford university. Nwelue is also facing complaints of…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he had dismissed several of Kyiv’s senior envoys abroad, including the country’s outspoken ambassador to Germany. Zelenskiy announced the sacking of Ukraine’s ambassadors to Germany, India, the Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary and said new candidates were being readied for the positions. “This rotation…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the major commercial banks in the country, Access Bank, has reportedly sacked over 300 staff across its branches in Nigeria. It was gathered that most of the affected workers were contract staff, who had put in a good number of years in the organisation. A source, who craved anonymity, said…
LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, ordered former Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to vacate his seat as a member representing Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Federal Constituency of Bauchi State. Delivering judgment, Justice Donatus Okorowo, declared that having defected from Peoples Democratic Party to All Progressives Congress,…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, sacked the Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi, his deputy, Kelechi Igwe, along with 15 lawmakers in the state over their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Messrs Umahi and Igwe, in November last year, defected from the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, announced this at a briefing in the Presidential Villa on Wednesday. He said the duo have been replaced with the Ministers of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud Abubakar, and Minister of State, Works and Housing, Abubakar Aliyu. Here are some comments gathered by NEWS DIRECT @Angel wrote: “They moving to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Ministers of Power, Saleh Mamman and his Agriculture and Rural Development counterpart, Alhaji Sabo Nanono. The President also announced the redeployment of two Ministers to take over from them. The Minister of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud Abubakar is to take over as the Minister of Agriculture and…