LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For the third time in less than a month, the rate of exchange (RoE) applicable to foreign airlines has ballooned, hitting N582/$1 with attendant spike in the cost of international air travel. At the new RoE, registered by the Global Distribution System (GDS), a six-hour Lagos-London economy class ticket now fluctuates between […]
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi has accused INEC of bias, describing as embarrasing the insistence of the electoral umpire that Tinubu won the election and that the petitions challenging the declaration should be dismissed. Obi said it was bizzare that INEC, which ought to be neutral, filed a preliminary […]
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some pay television companies in the country have adjusted tariffs, with others expected to do the same as they battle rising operational costs. StarTimes, the Chinese-operated television company, was the first to announce new tariffs when, earlier in the month, it rolled out new prices for its packages. The new prices, which […]
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 57 people drowned on Monday after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast near Khums, the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean where more than 1,100 have perished this year, the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Bodies have not been recovered from the shipwreck, but survivors included migrants […]
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rapper Symba has extended his philanthropic hand, as he’s donated 100 laptops to Nigerian students while visiting the beautiful land of Africa. On Tuesday (April 25), the MC posted footage from his voyage to Lagos, where he showed school administrators setting up the devices, and students patiently waiting to receive their new piece […]
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Labour Party (LP) has called on all election petition tribunals to disregard letters by its suspended National Legal Adviser, Samuel Akingbade, withdrawing all the party’s petitions. The party’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, stated on Tuesday in Abuja that the presidential election petition tribunal in particular should dismiss the letter. He […]
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two brothers were sentenced to 22 years each in federal prison for allegedly conspiring to traffic more than 7,700 pounds of cocaine from Colombia to the Unites States on “low-profile” boats, authorities said. Robin Castro-Gomez, 36, and Alvaro Castro-Gomez, 41, pleaded guilty last September to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute […]
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 29 people were abducted by gunmen in Nigeria’s federal capital territory, Abuja, a local government official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The gunmen arrived after midnight on Tuesday and rounded up residents in Yewuti village, some who had been attending a local ceremony, said Daniel Ishaku, an aide to […]
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the appointment of 12 Commissioners of Police to different State Commands across the Country. The new Commissioners of Police are; Mohammed Usaini Gumel posted to Kano State Command; Haruna Gabriel Garba; Federal Capital Territory, FCT Command Abuja; Tajudeen A. Abass, Delta Command; Oladimeji Yomi Olarewaju, […]
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States Consulate and a United States-based firm, Atlanta Global Resources Inc., AGRI, to build a railway network that will connect the nine states of the Niger Delta region. The ceremony, which was a part of the one-day […]
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