LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Professor Benedict Oramah, President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Cairo, Egypt, is expected deliver The Bullion Lecture 2019. Professor Oramah who is also Chairman, Board of Directors, Afreximbank, currently serves on the Practitioner Advisory Board of the Institute for Trade and Innovation of Offenburg University, Gengenbach, Germany. He is also a…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death has been announced of Madam Margaret Umunna Edeyi, a devout Christian and community leader from Umuokogbuo Eluama in Isuikwuato, Abia State. Maggie, as she was fondly called, died on Wednesday morning, March 13, 2019, in Warri, Delta State, aged around 90 years. She is survived by five children, among them…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Ogun state, Gbenga Daniel, has quit artisan politics, resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Daniel announced this in a letter to the national chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus. In the letter, Daniel, who was the campaign coordinators of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ramzan Ali said he was among 300 people attending Friday prayers at Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, when a gunman burst through the front door. The 62-year-old is believed to be the last to get out alive in the nation’s deadliest terror attack, according to the New Zealand Herald. Ali…
LAGOS MARH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The right-wing extremist charged over the horrifying attacks on New Zealand mosques flashed a white power gesture as he appeared in court Saturday, while a shell shocked community began digging graves for the 49 people he stands accused of slaying. Australia-born 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant stood largely impassive in the dock wearing handcuffs…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ijaw Rebirth National Congress IRNC, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to revoke the licence of Oil Mining Lease OML42, being operated by Neconde Energy Limited and other oil bloc licences in Ijaw land. The group in a letter signed by the Facilitator Mr. Luke Owe, Facilitator queried that in the…
By Adriano Rioja Ciprian LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In yet another landmark reform for its hydrocarbons sector, Angola released in February 2019 a new Presidential Decree detailing the country’s oil licensing strategy for the next six years. Published in February 2019, Presidential Decree No. 52/19 is a continuation of the Lourenço administration’s efforts to incentivize investments…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The building collapse in Lagos Island on Wednesday resulted in a mother, who lost her two children in the incident, committing suicide after she received news of the death of the children. It was learnt that she gave birth to the two children, who were between the ages of six and four,…