Archive for: May, 2023

India Surpasses China As World’s Most Populous Country Despite Being Smaller In Size

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-India has become the most populated country in the world with an estimated population of over 1.425 billion people. New figures from the United Nations’ Population Division have estimated India’s number of residents to be 1,425,775,850. That means the nation now officially holds the record for highest population, country. India has surpassed […]

Court Sends Three Behind Bar For 20 Years Over Diversion Of Dead Man’s N34m Stocks

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Chukwuejekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced the trio of Kasumu Ademola, Salau Mikailu, and Ganiyu Ishola to 20 years imprisonment. The three persons were sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty to diverting the shares of a dead client, identified as Mr Joseph Adeyemi, worth N34 […]

Massive Security Challenges Await Nigeria’s New President, Bola Tinubu

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Violence has surged in Nigeria following a brief lull for elections earlier in the year, serving as a cruel reminder of the significant security challenges faced by incoming President Bola Tinubu. Barely a week goes by in Africa’s most populous nation without attacks or kidnappings by criminals known as “bandits” in the […]

Supreme Court Dismisses PDP’s Double Nomination Suit Against Kashim Shettima

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court Friday dismissed the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party seeking the disqualification of the ticket that produced the president-elect, Bola Tinubu and the vice-president-elect, Kashim Shettima in the 2023 presidential election. The apex court thus affirmed that the duo of the All Progressives Congress were eligible to contest the […]

Customs Officers Passing Night In Offices Risk Arrest-CAC

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The PTML Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has banned its operatives from using their offices as homes. Customs Area Controller of the command, Compt. Ali Mahmud Ibrahim expressed displeasure over intelligence reports that some officers and non-officers of the service turned their offices into bedrooms and kitchens after closing hours. […]

Residents Flee As Gunmen Shot Dead Imo monarch, Set Corpse Ablaze

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed HRH Eze Victor Ijioma, the Traditional Ruler of Orsu Obodo in Oguta local government area of Imo state. Our correspondent gathered that the traditional ruler was murdered alongside the Traditional Prime Minister of Isama of Mgbele community in the council. It was further gathered that the two traditional leaders […]

Abuja Based  Rapper Reportedly Rejects Request To Perform At Tinubu’s Inauguration

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abuja-based Nigerian rapper and Hip Hop singer, Tochukwu Gbubemi Ojogwu, popularly known as Odumodublvck, has reportedly declined a request to perform at the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. Naija News reports that the self-acclaimed roadman made this known in a post via Twitter on Thursday, May 25, 2023, ahead of the inauguration. President Muhammadu Buhari today (Thursday) […]

After Inauguration Fanfare, Huge Economic Challenges Await Bola Tinubu

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s incoming President Bola Tinubu will inherit anaemic economic growth, record debt and shrinking oil output, but before he can start fixing these pressing problems he will need to secure public support for painful decisions. Life is tough for citizens of Africa’s biggest economy, and a tangle of protectionist economic policies and […]

$2bn Scandal: Ex-Mozambique Finance Minister Loses Last appeal, Set For Extradition To US

LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly five years after he was arrested at a South African airport, Mozambique’s former finance minister has lost a last-ditch court appeal and faces extradition to the United States over a $2 billion corruption scandal related to loans to Mozambican state-owned companies. U.S. prosecutors allege that Manuel Chang, Mozambique’s finance minister from […]

Official Cause Of Tina Turner’s Death Revealed One Day After Passing

cial Cuase of Death,   LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Just one day after news that the icon had passed away, Tina Turner‘s official cause of death has been revealed. The musical legend—born Anna Mae Bullock—died on May 24 of natural causes, her rep told the Daily Mail on Thursday, May 25. She was 83. As Parade previously […]

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