LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday called for an official rate that is reflective of market reality. He said the current dual exchange rates allowed for arbitrage and blocked inflow/supply of dollars from investors. Osinbajo said this on Monday in Abuja at the opening of a two-day Mid-Term Ministerial Performance Review Retreat organised…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barring any last minute change of mind, the Senate will on Tuesday (today) vote in favour of Electronic Transmission of election results. Already, the issue has been scheduled for debate by the Senate in the Order Paper for Tuesday as plenary resumes for the week. This followed the critical examination of the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen seized three student priests from a Catholic seminary in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna state, police and school authorities said Tuesday. The assailants stormed the Christ The King Major Seminary late Monday night and opened fire at the cafeteria where five of the students were sitting after dinner, according to the Rev. Joseph…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tyson Fury is still celebrating his knockout of Deontay Wilder in their instant classic Saturday in Las Vegas but people are already asking: What’s next for The Gypsy King? Apparently it won’t be a fight against fellow title holder Oleksandr Usyk, who is expected to face Anthony Joshua a second time early…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three school pupils, siblings, were feared killed when a commercial vehicle ran over them on Kajola/Igbominasi Highway in Ilesa, Osun State, on Monday. African Examiner reports that the siblings met their deaths on their way to school. Residents of the area consequently blocked the highway in protest. The blockage led to a…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Dubai have seized 500 kilograms of pure cocaine worth more than $136 million, about N55 billion. The drugs, the largest ever seized in the region, were stashed inside a cargo container, shipped to Dubai. The seizure followed a drugs raid, in which one person of Middle-Eastern origins was arrested….
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman Emeritus of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi, on Saturday said one of the greatest errors of his life was going into polygamy. According to him, contrary to the impression that he entered into polygamy because of his wealth, he revealed that it was due to internal family challenges. Dokpesi stated…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Deontay Wilder gave an inspiring performance against Tyson Fury but came up short on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The former heavyweight champ put the current titleholder down twice but hit the canvas three times himself and was stopped at 1:10 of the 11th round of an all-time classic. What…