LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two unnamed presidential aspirants were disqualified on Friday from contesting the presidential primary by a panel set up by the People’s Democratic Party. The primary election will be held in May. The chairman of the committee and former President of the Nigerian Senate, David Mark, said those disqualified did not meet the…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former tennis star Boris Becker was on Friday jailed for two and a half years after being found guilty by a British court of charges relating to his 2017 bankruptcy. The six-time Grand Slam champion, 54, will serve half of the term having been convicted at Southwark Crown Court in London over…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ramadan, the holy month in which Muslims fast from dawn to dusk, comes to an end the evening of Sunday, May 1. Large- and small-scale celebrations are planned to mark the occasion. Eid al-Fitr at Dome Arena For the first time since 2019, thousands of Muslims are expected to gather on May…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Joint Border Patrol Team, comprising the Nigeria Customs Service, the Nigeria Police, the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Army, on Thursday, April 28, 2022, handed over the duo of Ismail Ajibade and John Adewumi, a Beninoise, who were arrested with $285,000 and CFA 18, 925,000 to the Economic…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Central African Republic has adopted bitcoin as an official currency, the presidency said on Wednesday, becoming the first country in Africa and only the second in the world to do so. Despite rich reserves of gold and diamonds, Central African Republic is one of the world’s poorest and least-developed countries and has…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have abducted Mr. Ayuba Dodo Dakolo, the village head of Rijana, in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Daily Trust gathered that the village head was abducted alongside other farmers at Kurmi, near Chikwale in the same LGA. Our correspondent reports that Rijana, a community along the busy Abuja-Kaduna highway…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-House of Representatives member and Rivers state 2023 governorship aspirant, Farah Dagogo, declared wanted Wednesday by Governor Nyesom Wike was on Thursday arrested by armed security operatives at Port Harcourt. Dagogo was arrested at the South South Zonal Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he appeared among other South South…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A frontline 2023 presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has assured Nigerians that if he is given the chance to pilot the affairs of the nation as the President, the wealth of the nation would be secured and prudently managed for the benefit of…