LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Women of Nigeria watch out – the men are in revolt. No longer will they pay for lavish dates; no longer will they provide expensive gifts; no longer will they hand over cash on demand. That is, at least, according to the country’s Stingy Men Association. It is a fictional creation –…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt is racing to prepare a grandiose new capital city in the desert east of Cairo before the first civil servants move in this summer and ahead of the delayed official opening of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s flagship project. At the heart of the city, workers are putting finishing touches to an…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Milan court acquitted energy company Eni, its chief executive and Royal Dutch Shell on Wednesday in the oil industry’s biggest corruption case revolving around the $1.3 billion acquisition of a Nigerian oilfield a decade ago. The sentence, read out in court by judge Marco Tremolada, came more than three years after…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tanzania’s President John Magufuli, one of Africa’s most prominent coronavirus sceptics, has died aged 61, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Wednesday after a more than two-week absence from public life that led to speculation about his health. She said he died from the heart disease that had plagued him for…
LAGOS MATCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Iyaganku chief magistrate court in Ibadan, Oyo capital, has ordered that Iskilu Wakili, a Fulani leader in the state, be remanded in a correctional facility. Wakili was arrested by the Oodua Peoples Congress and other security outfits in Kajola, Ibarapa area of the state, and subsequently handed over to the police….
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Babatunde Fashola, a top-tier member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet, has been interrogated by the EFCC over corrupt practices tied to his questionable asset declaration and an ongoing probe of Babatunde Fowler, the disgraced former chairman of the FIRS, two senior anti-graft detectives have told Peoples Gazette. Officials familiar with the works…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has introduced new charges for customers using the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data services. The apex bank said effective Tuesday, customers will pay a flat fee of N6.98 per transaction every time they use USSD services. It said the new charges was part of the agreement reached when…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has instituted an investigation into the violent attacks and theft allegation against the policemen captured in the viral video where two (2) mobile policemen were attacked and alleged to have stolen mobile phones in a shop at the computer village Ikeja, Lagos State…
