Archive for: May, 2024

FG To Commence Payment Of Loan To Students From Federal Institutions

LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the formal opening of the Students’ Loan portal this Friday, the Nigeria Education Loan Fund has said it will commence with students in federal tertiary institutions. This comes as the Fund has said only students whose institutions have uploaded their data on its dashboard would be eligible to apply. Managing […]

Slap On The Wrist: Benin Monarch  Accuses EFCC Officials Of Aiding Crimes

LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The monarch of Benin, Omo N’ Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, CFR, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of aiding crimes. Oba Ewuare II, made the allegations when he received the newly deployed Benin Zonal Director of EFCC, Effa Okim, in his Palace in Benin […]

Psychiatric Patients Protesting Over Alleged ‘Poor Treatment’ Bite Doctor, Nurses In Ogun

MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-LAGOS Pandemonium broke out on Wednesday at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when patients in the hospital protested what they described as the ‘poor treatments’ they are subjected to by management of the facility. It was gathered that a psychiatric doctor, whose identity is yet-to-be ascertained, and three nurses […]

‘Expect A  Big War’ If Iran Traces President’s Helicopter Crash To Enemies- Expert

LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran could launch an all-out war on the world if it turns out an “enemy state” had a hand in the fatal helicopter crash that saw the country’s president killed overnight. The wreckage of the ill-fated US-made Bell 212 helicopter was discovered by rescue teams today, with initial reports suggesting that the […]

Perish Any Thought Of N100k  As New Minimum Wage, Labour Tells FG

LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Organised Labour has told the Federal Government to perish any thought of offering N100,000 as the new minimum wage. It also asked the government to be serious with negotiations on the issue of workers’ wages, insisting that it used the lowest minimum in arriving at N615,000 as the new minimum wage. Recall […]

Alcoholic Consumers To Pay  More As  Breweries Announces Third Price Hikes In Three Months

LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-In what seems to have become a monthly ritual, the Nigerian Breweries Plc has once again announced a hike in the prices of its products that would take effect from April 9, 2024, after it had made similar announcements in February and March 2024. A price review notification the Nigerian Breweries issued […]

Sierra Leone First Lady Allegedly Calls Off  Sunday  Church Services To Permit Secret Society Procession

LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Church leaders in Sierra Leone have vehemently protested against the action taken by the First Lady of Sierra Leone , Mrs. Fatima Bio and  the authorities of Kenema- one of the strongholds of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) —to call off church services today, Pentecost Sunday, to permit […]

Presidency Reacts To  Atiku, Obi’s Planned Alliance

LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has reacted to the planned alliance between Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. Recall that Obi held a private meeting with Atiku and other PDP stakeholders in Abuja last week. He also met […]

Tell Me One Item Tinubu Has Not Taxed?

By Femi Adeoti LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Restlessness and restiveness fit them to the hilt. The perfect words to tag  them. They are always on the move. Only for the wrong reason. Sad. Very quick to point out how they do things in other lands. They would tell us the economic downtown is global. As if […]

Angry Mob Sets Students Ablaze Whose Car Killed Mother, Her Two Kids, Cyclist In Osun

LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck at Ode-Omu on Saturday morning as a car whose occupants were said to be students of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, rammed into a motorcycle, killing four persons, including the bike man. The motorcycle, according to an eyewitness, was conveying a woman simply identified as Cecilia and her three children to […]

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