LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hassan Boguma, a prominent chief in Borno, has condemned Nigeria’s security situation and corruption in government. The Zanna Boguma of Borno also revealed how the North requested the United States to support President Muhammadu Buhari for the 2015 poll. Boguma, a member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), spoke to Arewa Agenda….
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The oldest living person in the U.S. celebrated her birthday Saturday, local media reports. Hester Ford is now 115 — or 116. According to CBS, her family says U.S. Census Bureau documents indicate she was born in 1905, but another set of Census Bureau documents point to 1904. At 115 or 116,…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Overturning a U.S. ban on Nigerians seeking immigrant visas will take “enormous resources”, but the nation is making progress, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday. Nigeria was among six countries in an expanded version of U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban, announced in January, which blocked their citizens from obtaining U.S. visas…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-United States Court has dismissed sex and human trafficking allegation made against a Nigerian from Delta State and former former Group General Manager of National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Mr. Dafe Sejebor. The charges were dismissed on February 19, 2020. Mr. Mark W. Bennett, counsel to Dafe Sejebor disclosed and confirmed…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former senior Saudi intelligence official said in a US lawsuit Thursday that the country’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to have him assassinated in 2018, just weeks after dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Turkey. Saad Aljabri said Prince Mohammed sent a “hit squad” to Canada, where he lives…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigerian international, Musa Nosa Kadiri, has passed away at the age of 53 in New York. A source said Kadiri, ex- Flying Eagles star, went into a coma after falling from his apartment which caused bleeding in the brain. SaharaReporters gathered that he died on Friday. A statement says his funeral…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mountain of Fire And Miracles Ministries (MFM) has urged an Online Publisher to henceforth stop the misguided and vicious attack on MFM General Overseer, Dr D.K. Olukoya. A statement signed by Mr Collins Edomaruse, a Media Aide to Dr D.K. Olukoya disclosed that the Church attention was drawn to an on-line story…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has been admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, state news agency SPA said on Monday. The king, who has ruled the world’s largest oil exporter and close U.S. ally since 2015, was undergoing medical checks, the…