LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Nigeria must key into global financial inclusion and the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) must lead in the awareness that may help Nigeria achieve this. The charge was handed down to GOCOP by Yusuf Mamman, Nigeria’s former ambassador to Spain, chairman of the 2024 Annual General Conference of GOCOP holding…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former minister of power, who later served as governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, on Thursday, in Lokoja, stated that alleged “expenditure” of a phantom $16 billion on the power sector by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration never happened. Imoke, who was also Chairman of the Power Sector Technical Board…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Managing Director, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) and Country Chair, Shell Companies in Nigeria (SCiN), Osagie Okunbor, has received an “Award of Excellence to an Astute and Visionary Technocrat” from the newly instituted executive leadership of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN). Okunbor received the award…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has released updated saving deposit interest rates for various Deposit Money banks (DMBs). According to CBN, banks now offer an average savings deposit rate of 8.03% compared to the previous average rate of 7.88%. A savings rate is the interest rate Nigerian banks pay their customers to…
By Jastra Kranjec LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ever since the crypto boom in early 2022, the total number of cryptocurrencies has been floating between 8,500 and 10,000, with new tokens being launched every time a bull run in the crypto space starts. The same thing happened in 2024 when the total number of cryptos jumped by…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Labour Party Presidential Candidate during the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi, on Sunday worshipped with the students of Holy Rosary College in Nsugbe, marking a significant occasion as the Holy Rosary Sisters celebrate 100 years since their foundation by Bishop Joseph Shanahan in 1924. The college at Nsugbe is also celebrating its…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Manufacturing Company, Gilead Sciences, has announced that cheaper versions of the “gamechanger” HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir, will be made available in 120 low and middle-income countries. Currently, the drug is priced at $42,250 annually in the US under the brand name Sunlenca, but researchers believe it could be produced for as low…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of supporters on Saturday joined Tinok Andrew Nok, a senatorial aspirant in the 2023 general election, as she moved from the New Nigeria Peoples Party to the Labour Party in Kaduna State. Tinok, the younger sister of former Kaduna State Commissioner of Education, Prof. Andrew Nok, expressed her conviction that the…