LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NESRANGERS)-Royal Dutch Shell Plc has said it paid $4.32 billion to the Nigerian Government in 2017, representing an increase of 19 per cent from the $3.64 billion the oil giant paid in 2016. The Shell’s Sustainability Report 2017, which was released yesterday, showed that the $4.32 billion paid to Nigeria was the…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government on Monday constituted a 16-man committee to screen the degrees obtained by Nigerians from foreign tertiary institutions. The move, according to Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, became necessary following reported cases of fake foreign degrees said to have been obtained by Nigerians from sub-standard institutions across the continent. According…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Founder and Senior Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has reacted to the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari to contest for Presidency come 2019 election. President Buhari had announced his intention to go for second term at the National Executive Council meeting of the APC held in Abuja…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many youths in Kano jubilated on Monday after the news broke that President Muhammadu Buhari would be seeking another term. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, some of the youths expressed optimism that Buhari would complete the development projects he started. Usman Baba, a resident, told NAN that the past…
LAGOS APARIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former National Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration to run for the 2019 Presidential election. Buhari had on Monday declared that he would run in the coming election. Buhari also said he would come out victorious by the grace…
LAGOS APRIL 9H (NEWSRANGERS)-Swaziland’s King Mswati’s eighth wife has committed suicide following drug overdose. Senteni Masango was found dead in the early hours of Friday morning, news outleto in the South African country reported. According to Mpumalanga news, the late queen’s funeral will be held at Ludzidzini Royal Kraal on Saturday, April 7. She will…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Less than three days after the swap of 82 Chibok girls on May 7, 2017, and a payment of €3 million ransom for the release of five commanders from DSS custody, a video of Shuaibu Moni, one of the swapped Boko Haram commanders went viral where he issued threats to Nigerian state…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, co-convener of the BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, advocacy group, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration of his ambition to seek a second term in office come 2019. In a tweet on Monday, the former minister of Education wrote: “Reading the Breaking News that our President will be seeking reelection in…
