
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the nation as it tries to keep a Taliban-led government from accessing the money, an administration official confirmed Tuesday. The official said that any central bank assets that the Afghan government […]

LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSANGERS)-The lawmaker representing Ovia Federal Constituency of Edo State in the House of Representatives, Mr Dennis Idahosa, has petitioned the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), over alleged extortion and harassment of motorists and other road users by NCS officers at Ekiadolor, along the Benin-Ore-Lagos highway, Ovia North East Local […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) has described as fake and untrue the list of candidates for the award of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) published by an online newspaper. The committee, in a statement by the Director, Information, Supreme Court, Dr. Festus Akande, described the publication as false, fake and calculated […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagosians will now pay between N37,825 and N210,175 for private and commercial vehicle number plates depending on the type, the Babajide Sanwo-Olu government has said. This was contained in a statement on Tuesday posted on the official Facebook page of the Lagos State Government. The new price regime was a sequel to […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria Billionaire and philanthropist, Obinna Iyiegbu, also popularly known as Obi Cubana has stepped in to help financially for the medical trip to one of the Hospitals in India of a popular Nollywood star, Kingsley Orji after he faced disappointment from the first donor. Egbe-Igwe as popularly called was reported to had sustained […]
Aug 18 2021 | Posted in
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LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives’ Committee on Finance has invited the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, the Nigeria Customs Service and the Budget Office of the Federation to appear on Monday and explain issues surrounding the collection and appropriation of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, especially a two per cent Ports Development […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government’s total borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria through Ways and Means Advances has ballooned to N15.51tn, rising by 2,286 per cent in six years, data collated from the CBN have shown. The N15.51tn owed by the Federal Government to the central bank is not part of the country’s […]
Aug 18 2021 | Posted in
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LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Algeria, defending champion of the African Cup of Nations (CAN), will face Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea and Ivory Coast, in the clash of Group E of the 2022 edition (January 9-February 6), according to the draw made in Yaoundé on Tuesday. Cameroon, host country of the competition and second most titled nation […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The visit of President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu to the United Kingdom for medical care amid the ongoing strike by the National Association Residents Doctors (NARD) has sparked outrage across the country. Resident doctors have been on strike for over 15 days in protest of government’s failure to respect agreements on […]
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LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sterling Bank Plc is currently enmeshed in a N1.7 billion fraud scandal in which bank officials and a businessman colluded to siphon the said amount from a customer’s account. The case which is currently before an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, details how an official of the bank, Ifeanyichukwu Shallom Isituah and a […]
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