LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGRS)-Ahead of 2019 election, the Coalition for Nigeria Movement being promoted by former President Olusegun Obasanjo has registered no fewer than three million members. The former president revealed this on Thursday while delivering a lecture at the 14th annual lecture of the Women in Management, Business and Service (WimBiz), a non-governmental organisation,…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Charging ahead with the dramatic remaking of his White House, President Donald Trump said Thursday he would replace national security adviser H.R. McMaster with the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, a foreign policy hawk entering a White House facing key decisions on Iran and North Korea. After weeks of speculation about McMaster’s…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has halted temporarily, the withdrawal of policemen attached to Very Important Persons to enable the force to carry out an assessment of the current personnel deployment. He stated that the withdrawal would now take effect from April 20, 2018. Idris, in a statement on Thursday, in…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says it is incorrect to say the execution process of the economic and recovery growth plan (ERGP) does not truly reflect the needs of Nigerians. He said this in response to a statement made by Bill Gates at the expanded national economic council presided over by…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NESRANGERS)-The present economic templates being used by the Muhammadu Buhari government do not have the ability to address the unique needs of Nigerians at present, American business magnate, Bill Gates, has said. The philanthropist and founder of Microsoft corporation however said Nigeria has the ability to approach ‘upper middle-income status’ like Brazil,…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWRANGERS)-At Nigeria’s normally manic border post of Seme, Lasisi Fanu says business has all but ground to a halt. He and other customs agents who help clear goods coming into Africa’s biggest economy from its smaller neighbor Benin say the long lines of trucks loaded with rice that used to jam the…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Social and economic activities between Kwara and Oyo states have been paralysed since Sunday following the invasion of Ilorin-Igbeti highway by gunmen. Several travellers have fallen victims of the hoodlums who allegedly kidnapped and collected huge ransom from their victims, Dailytrust reports. News of the invasion first emerged on Wednesday last week,…
By Amos Okioma,Yenagoa LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-History was made in Bayelsa state as the management of Bayelsa Queen Football and Bayelsa United Football Club and the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria ( SWAN ) plan to build synergy on how the two clubs would use the media to gain promotion ahead of the NNL/NWFL 2017/2018…
