http://ift.tt/2lJ4ixq LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-America may withhold aid money to the Palestinians if they walk away from peace negotiations, Donald Trump threatened. In a pair of tweets, Mr Trump wrote that “we pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect”. “We have taken Jerusalem, the toughest part…
http://ift.tt/2CJmWg5 IGP Idris LAGOS JABUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian official says gunmen shot dead at least 17 worshippers who had attended a church service to usher in the new year. The chairman of a local community group, Osi Olisa, said Tuesday that the gunmen also shot people on the road before escaping. No group has claimed…
http://ift.tt/2CcvSxl Buhari LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed six bills, including the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017 and the Niger Delta Development Commission (Establishment) Amendment Act, 2017 into laws. Senator Ita Enang, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), made this known…
http://ift.tt/2ltRR7E Late Senator Spanner Okpozo LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Congress, late Senator Francis Okpozo, was on Friday named among the 1,467 chairmen and members of the Federal Government Boards approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. The announcement of the chairmanship and membership of the Boards…
http://ift.tt/2DzmOz1 Nigria First Lady Aisha Buhari LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s First Lady and wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, who was in Adamawa when the news of her son’s bike crash came, collapsed and had to be placed on bed rest at Cedacrest Hospital, Abuja. Yusuf Buhari, had a bike crash Tuesday night, around Gwarimpa…
http://ift.tt/2CsazVp Palestinian demonstrators scuffle with Israeli soldiers during a demonstration at the Huwara checkpoint, south of Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on December 27. Dozens of Israeli teenagers have written a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling him that they will refuse to enlist for the military as they do not want…
http://ift.tt/2zK2Mzo Gadafi’s son, Saif al-Islam LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saif al-Islam Gadafi, the son of former Libyan leader, Gadaffi will contest the upcoming presidential election in the country. Libya’s next election comes up in 2018 and spokesperson for Gadaffi family, Basem al-Hashimi al-Soul, told Egypt Today that Saif al-Islam has the support of the citizens. al-Soul…
http://ift.tt/2DteoJd Presdent Buhari and hs son, Yusuf LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Top politicians and prominent personalities have been reaching out to the family of President Muhhammadu Buhari over the bike accident that involved his son, Yusuf. It will recall that Yusuf was involved in a bike accident at Gwarinmpa in Abuja on Tuesday night and is…