http://ift.tt/2tAnwYM LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family members of a comedian, Chinedu Paul aka Think Twice has refuted the allegation that he is a member of the dreaded Badoo cult group. Speaking at a joint press briefing between JPTS and the family of Chinedu Paul at Igando in Lagos, the fiancée, Esther Demenongu and sister of the…
http://ift.tt/2tzQPLh Supporters of the Indigenous People of Biafra march in Port Harcourt in January in support of then-president-elect Donald Trump. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) By Eromo Egbejule Eromo Egbejule is a Lagos-based journalist covering West Africa. He is working on a documentary about the civil war. In 2006, my freshman year at the University of Nigeria,…
http://ift.tt/2tXMFQp Hameed Ali LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Spokesperson of the Nigeria Customs Service, Joseph Attah, has said some people cannot access their e-auction portal because of technical problems. The portal was launched on Tuesday by the Comptroller-General, Hameed Ali. However, many interested bidders lamented the unavailability of the platform. Attah said the challenges had already been…
http://ift.tt/2uQmSWv LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Warri prison located in Okere in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State is seriously congested and in a deplorable state. According to Daily Post, the Prison which currently houses more than a thousand five hundred inmates usually suffers lack of water supply as a result of poor electricity. Consequently,…
http://ift.tt/2svDTom Idil Eser, Director of Amnesty Turkey, was detained along with 7 other human rights defenders at a workshop in Istanbul on 5 July 2017. LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amnesty International has accused the Turkish police of arresting and detaining the Director of Amnesty International in Turkey, Idil Eser and seven human right defenders. The were…
http://ift.tt/2uwf2lG Dino Melaye LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Embattled Senator Dino Melaye failed on Thursday in his bid to stop the ongoing recall process by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Justice John Tsoho in an ex-parte ruling rejected Melaye’s motion for a temporary injunction restraining INEC from proceeding with the recall process until the determination of…
http://ift.tt/2sSJKU1 LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Jigawa Government has declared Friday, July 7, as a public holiday to enable public servants offer special prayer for President Muhammadu Buhari ’s quick recovery. Alhaji Isma’il Ibrahim, the Public Relations Officer, Office of the state’s Head of Civil Service (HoS), announced this in a statement in Dutse on Thursday….
http://ift.tt/2uQj87n LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops worked Thursday, June 6 to rescue hundreds of people stranded by flooding in southern Japan. At least two people were found dead and nearly 20 were still unaccounted for in flooding that wrecked homes, roads and rice terraces. Heavy rain warnings were in effect for much of the southern main…