LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kano based multi-billionaire- businessman, industrialist, Islamic Scholar and philanthropist, Sheikh Isyaku Rabiu, 90, has died in Great Britain following an undisclosed ailment. Media reports quoting News Digest said the deceased scholar would be buried as soon as his remains arrive Kano. The Sheikh made his fortune largely from manufacturing, textile, automobile, insurance,…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Princess Elizabeth Bright, a 22yrs old student has been elected as one of the youngest councillors in UK, representing Eastbrook ward in Dagenham, during the UK Election which took place on Thursday, May 3rd. Her mother, Councillor Afolasade Bright from the Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council was also re-elected. She is…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria religious leaders has rejected British Prime Minister, Theresa May call for same-sex marriage in Nigeria and all other countries within the Commonwealth. At the first joint forum at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Westminster yesterday, the prime minister said there should be no laws criminalising same-sex relationships across the…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday sentenced a UK visa applicant, Kolawole Viyon, to three years imprisonment for giving false information about his marital status. The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission had arraigned Viyon for allegedly lying about his marital status. Justice Mojisola Dada, who gave the ruling,…
LAGOS APRIL 13RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Theresa May’s cabinet has agreed on the need to “take action” to deter use of chemical weapons following an emergency meeting at Downing Street. The prime minister summoned her senior ministers to No 10 to discuss joining the United States and France in possible military strikes against Syria after saying “all the…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-– It has been revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari will be returning to the United Kingdom but this time around for his annual vacation. According to a presidential source Buhari’s intention is to leave on Monday in order to have enough rest ahead of the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, (CHOGM)…
LAGOS MARCH 27T (NEWSRANGERS)-The graduate son of a Nigerian politician was shot dead near his family’s London home in the latest round of bloodshed in the capital. Abraham Badru, 26, who was given a police bravery award as a teenager for saving a woman from a sex attack, was gunned down in the street in…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said the United Kingdom has paid Nigeria the sum of $70m recovered from the Malabu oil controversial deal. The $70m leaves an outstanding of $15m of the $85m which the AGF announced in October last year as…