LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Over 3,000 flights were already canceled or delayed by midday Wednesday, as the spate of severe weather battering the Northeast continued to impact major airlines. As of noon Wednesday, 799 flights within, into, or out of the US had been axed in addition to 2,457 delays, according to FlightAware. United Airlines was…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians marked the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha on Wednesday with prayers, celebrations and family dinners as many navigated high inflation, a steep currency devaluation and growing transport costs. Africa’s most populous nation is almost equally divided between the predominantly Muslim north and a Christian south, though many southerners are Muslim, including…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s elections this year were marred by problems that undermined public trust in democracy, European Union observers said. President Bola Tinubu won a ballot held on Feb. 25 — a result that the two runners up are disputing in court. Voters elected federal lawmakers on the same day and chose state governors…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Debris recovered from the submersible that catastrophically imploded while on a voyage to see the Titanic wreckage last week contained “presumed human remains,” the U.S. Coast Guard said. Salvaged pieces of the Titan vessel were unloaded from the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John’s, Newfoundland,…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has been whisked away from the Department of State Services (DSS) headquarters in Abuja to an undisclosed private facility, Naija News learnt. It was gathered that the embattled suspended anti-graft agency boss was moved to another facility to have…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Bank has stated that Nigeria has one of the highest inflation rates, which pushed an estimated four million people into poverty between January and May 2023. This was disclosed during the launch of the June 2023 edition of the Nigeria Development Update on Tuesday in Abuja. The Washington-based lender also…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has charged Nigerians not to allow the prevailing hardship and provocative attitudes of leaders in the country to affect their faith in God, who will make possible a better and prosperous Nigeria. Obi in his Sallah message tweet, …
Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State has reportedly rejected 100 rams from a philanthropist in the state. His Niger State counterpart, Mohammed Bago, urged Muslims to imbibe the virtues of love, obedience and sacrifice as exemplified by Prophet Ibrahim. The Guardian gathered that the rams were presented to Radda, yesterday, ahead of today’s Sallah celebration,…