LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has distanced itself from a viral social media statement claiming the group warned former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, to withdraw from the 2027 presidential race, and allegedly cautioned the North against supporting him. In a statement issued on Tuesday by the National Publicity Secretary of…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has again decried what he described as President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s penchant for reckless borrowing without accountability. Obi spoke in response to the latest external borrowing plan of $21 billion, N2.2 billion euro and ¥15 billion approved by the Senate last week….
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An attack by an armed group on a military base in northern Burkina Faso has left about 50 soldiers dead, according to accounts by a community leader and a resident on Tuesday. The Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin group, or JNIM, was suspected of carrying out the attack Monday on the base in…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Morocco have filed a petition to CAF questioning the eligibility of two players who played for the women’s team of Nigeria in the final of the WAFCON, which Nigeria won 3-2 on Saturday. The host were two goals up going into the half time break , but a second half rally by…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has conferred national honours of Officer of Order of Niger (OON) on Super Falcons following their historic victory at the 2025 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. The President while receiving the players and the technical team at the Villa on Monday commended them for their “indomitable spirit…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers in Nigeria have killed at least 35 people they abducted from a village in northern Zamfara state despite ransoms being paid for their release, a local official told the BBC. In recent years, criminal gangs in the region, known in the country as bandits, have taken to kidnapping people as a…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The price of rice, which went down to about N65,000 per bag about six months ago, is on the upswing again, signifying more hard times for Nigerians. Sunday Vanguard’s survey in some markets in Lagos shows that some brands of rice now sell for as high as N100,000 while others are a…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has asked President Bola Tinubu to include refined petroleum products in the list of items banned under the ‘Nigeria First’ policy of the Federal Government. But this was unanimously rejected by oil marketers and some industry analysts on Sunday. The ’Nigeria First’…