LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bill Gates has regained the title of the richest person in the world, surpassing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Friday in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has a net worth of $110 billion, which topped Bezos’ total worth of $109 billion, according to the index. Gates briefly held the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)– Suspected Islamist militants killed no fewer than 15 people overnight in eastern Congo, local officials said on Saturday, in the latest massacre since the army launched a major offensive against the rebels last month. Democratic Republic of Congo’s army initiated its latest campaign, with support from U.N. peacekeepers, on Oct. 30…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has directed that with effect from Friday, 15th November, 2019, all security aides attached to the Governors, their Deputies and all other public office holders, politicians and any other personality involved in the elections in the Bayelsa and Kogi States be withdrawn until the conclusion…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After seventy-seven days of border closure, major markets and stores in Sokoto State are still being flooded with foreign rice. Where do they get the foreign from after two month of border closure? Apparently, by now, old stocks should have been exhausted in two month. But that is not the case in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government on Friday said it was set to create legislation to punish individuals who indiscriminately defecate in the open. It said an Executive Order shall be signed in that effect by President Muhammadu Buhari soon to help reduce significantly or completely eradicate cases of open defecation in Nigeria. The Minister…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 27 people have been struck dead by lighning, injuring over two dozens of others in separate incidents in different areas of Pakistan’s Southern Sindh province in the last 24 hours, officials tell local media reporters on Friday morning. The provincial government spokesman, Saeed Ghani, said that local authorities declared an…
LAGOS NOVEMBE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Nigeria missed out on a chance to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games football tournament when they were held 0-0 by South Africa in Cairo on Friday. Unmarked Sunday Faleye wasted a great chance to snatch victory for the Nigerians in the final minute by heading a cross wide…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is no going back on social media regulation, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed said on Thursday. He told online publishers in Abuja that the government will not be deterred by criticisms. He stressed that it was the right thing to do. The minister said the government was yet to…