LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Venezuelan security forces surrounded the Argentine embassy in the capital Caracas on Friday after two opposition members took refuge inside, according to posts by the opposition on social media. The pair joined four other Venezuelan opposition figures who have taken refuge in the embassy this year. One of the men, Pedro Urruchurtu,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A financial statement published by the World Bank has placed Nigeria as the third largest debtor to the Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) as of June 30, 2024. According to the financial statement, Nigeria’s exposure to IDA rose to $16.5 billion as at June 30, which is an increase of $2.2 billion,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, says Nigeria’s economy has stagnated, stating that earlier in the year, the country’s debt exceeded 50 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product for the first time since 2001. Gates stated this during his address at the National Economic Council meeting held…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ondo Police Commissioner, Abayomi Oladipo has narrated how the popular Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Kitchen County, Mrs. Debbie Adene, was killed by her domestic staff. Oladipo, who spoke for the first on the killing, said that the victim’s corpse was mutilated by three of her domestic staff. Parading, a 17-year-old Philip…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), and some civil society organisations (CSOs), yesterday, expressed outrage at the recent hike in petrol prices, lamenting that the federal government is inflicting further hardship on Nigerians. PDP rejected what it described as the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Enugu and Imo governments are issuing fines to residents for using alternative energy sources to power their facilities, citing “environmental unfriendly activities” and “carbon emission.” According to Enugu’s ministry of government and climate change, alternative sources of power, aside from the one generated by the nation’s power company, contravenes multiple sections of…