LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)=The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday, Wednesday, June 10, 2021, received six high-ranking members of the USA Consulate in Nigeria in his Onitsha residence, Anambra State. The team visits Obi routinely in Lagos or Onitsha to exchange ideas with him…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The State Department on Saturday ordered non-essential diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Chad to leave the African nation due to potential insurgent attacks on the capital. In addition to non-essential embassy staff, the department also ordered the families of American personnel stationed there to leave because armed groups appear to be…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The US Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria has announced that the services of Yoruba and Hausa teachers are needed in the United States. According to the Public Affairs Section of the US Mission Nigeria which made the announcement on its website, applications from qualified Nigerians wishing to teach Hausa or Yoruba languages…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States embassy in Nigeria has described a report that David Oyedepo, founder of the Living Faith Church, was denied a visa, as “false”. ThisDay had on Thursday reported that the embassy denied the cleric the document, stating that he did not qualify for visa renewal. He was also urged to…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A mild drama, thursday, played out at the Lagos office of the Embassy of the United States as the founder of Faith Tabernacle in Ota, Ogun State and Living Faith Church Worldwide, otherwise known as Winners’ Chapel International, Bishop David Oyedepo was denied visa. But an ace comedian, Abovi Ugboma, popularly known…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have tightened security around the United States Embassy and British High Commission in Abuja in response to fears they could be targeted by groups sympathetic to Iran in retaliation for the killing of its most powerful military commander, Qassem Soleimani. The head of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. ambassador to Iraq and other staff were evacuated from their embassy in Baghdad for their safety on Tuesday, Iraqi officials said, as thousands of protesters and militia fighters outside the gate denounced U.S. air strikes in Iraq. On Sunday, U.S. planes had attacked bases belonging to an Iranian-backed militia, a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of northern youths has unveiled plans to mobiliise its members for a peaceful rally at the US embassy to protest the indictment of Allen Oyema over an alleged $20million fraud. Onyema, the chairman and CEO of Air Peace was accused of money laundering by the United States Department of Justice….