Archive for: February, 2024

CBN Traces Decline In Naira On $39.6bn Spent On Foreign Education, Medical Tourism

LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has blamed the freefall of the naira on the huge sum of $39.6bn spent by Nigerians on foreign education and medical tourism in 10 years spanning 2010 to 2020. Giving a breakdown, the apex bank disclosed that the sum of $28.6bn was spent on foreign education […]

Panic As Fleeing Robbers Ram Into Traders At Rivers Market, Injure Scores

LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium at the popular Mile 3 Diobu area of Port Harcourt on Tuesday when four suspected fleeing armed robbers rammed into traders who displayed their goods for the day’s market. A trader in the market, who simply identified herself as Rachael, told our reporter that they were in the market […]

Nigerians Lament As Cooking Gas Price Hits N1,300/KG

LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians are feeling the heat, not just from their stoves, but from their wallets as the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), commonly known as cooking gas, has skyrocketed to N1,300 per kilogram. This sharp increase, up from less than N500 in 2018, has sent shockwaves through households nationwide, adding another layer […]

Nigeria-Niger Republic Flights Remain Suspended, Nigeria Govt FG Insists

LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency has aid the ban on flights between Nigeria and Niger Republic persists. NAMA clarified that authorised exemptions to the ban include over-flight aircraft traversing Nigerian airspace, aircraft in a state of emergency, and special flights. On July 26, 2023, Nigerien military junta ousted its duly elected President, […]

Saving Ubeji Community  From  Choking Impacts  Of Gas Flaring 

By; Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-If President Bola Ahmed Tinubu led Federal Government is desirous of ending gas flaring in the country, then, the administration should consider as urgent, taking both practical and pragmatic steps to save the people of Ubeji Community, a sleepy Satellite community located around the Warri petrochemical company in Warri […]

A Country Will Not Survive If Govt Officials Are Richer Than Businessmen, Manufacturers – Peter Obi

LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has emphasized the need for the ruling class to tackle corruption and criminality as a means of moving the country forward. The LP flag bearer insisted that corruption and criminality kill professionalism and hard work. He urged the government to do everything in […]

Ethiopia Set To Ban All Non Electric Vehicles With Immediate Effect

LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to Ethiopia’s Transport Minister, Alemu Sime, the country spent €6 billion alone last year importing gasoline and diesel. Apart from being financially unsustainable, the pollution levels in the cities are out of control. The only way out of the conundrum, according to Minister Sime, is an immediate ban on non-electric vehicles […]

Nigerian Soldiers Gun Down Colleague Who Went Wild, Killed Senior Officer In Sokoto

LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of the Joint Task Force North West Operation HADARIN DAJI (OPHD) have gunned down a soldier identified as James Kingsley after he opened fire and killed one of his senior officers.  The officer killed by Kingsley – a Second Lieutenant – was identified as OC Ukachuckwu (N/19548)).  A military source who […]

NANS Gives Tinubu 14 Days Ultimatum To Address Rising Costs Of Living, Hardship  Or Face Mass Protests

LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has given President Bola Tinubu a 14-day ultimatum to implement concrete measures to tackle the rising cost of living crisis in the country. The students’ body which lamented the hardships faced by Nigerians warned that failure to come out with implementable policies that would address […]

Parents Of Abducted Ekiti Students Pay N15m,Tramadol, Fried Rice, Energy Drink As Ransom

LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Parents of kidnapped Ekiti pupils said fried rice, black bullets, energy drinks, milk and N15 million were offered to secure the release of their children. The schoolchildren attend the Apostolic Faith Group of Schools in Emure-Ekiti in Emure LGA. The pupils and their teachers were abducted while returning home in a school […]

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