LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, on Thursday, seized $68,000 from a Nigeria-bound family who lied about the value of cash in their possession. The confiscation was made at the Washington Dulles International Airport when the officers were conducting inspections on outbound passengers departing on a flight to Cairo,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ongoing political drama in Rivers State has taken a very interesting turn as 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). A member of the Assembly, Enemi George, confirmed to Channels Television that the 27 lawmakers…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump said Sunday he has decided against testifying for a second time at his New York civil fraud trial, posting on social media a day before his scheduled appearance that he “very successfully & conclusively” testified last month and saw no need to do so again. The former president, the leading…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A senior Saudi prince and seven other officials have been killed in a helicopter crash near the country’s border with Yemen, state media report. Prince Mansour bin Muqrin, the deputy governor of Asir province, was returning from an inspection tour when his aircraft came down near Abha late on Sunday, the interior…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has replaced the governing board and the management of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), the agency saddled with the responsibility of ensuring “70 per cent indigenous content and participation in the nation’s energy industry.” No reason was given for the exit of the former board and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On June 18, Solomon James, a point-of-sale operator in Kaduna State, was going about his daily activities when his phone kept screaming a series of debit alerts that would later amount to N1 million. James told FIJ that after many failed attempts to stop the continual unauthorised transaction, a strange caller who…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria may lose five thousand direct jobs as Procter & Gamble, a multinational consumer company, announced its plan to exit the largest African economy 31 years after coming to the country. On Wednesday, P&G chief financial officer Andre Schulten disclosed that the company will turn Nigeria into an import-only market. Consequently, the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sunday Igboho, a Yoruba Nation activist, has finally spoken out about rumours that he transformed into a cat during a midnight raid on his home by the Department of State Services (DSS) in July 2021. In an interview, Igboho refuted the report, saying that nothing like that occurred during the DSS raid….