LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A US-based media company, Bloomberg L.P., has predicted a continued decline of the Nigerian naira in 2024, potentially making it the worst-performing currency globally for the second year in a row. Bloomberg’s market analysis reveals a staggering 55% depreciation of the naira this year, reaching about 1,043 to the dollar as of…
By Bola Bolawole LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-While he was visiting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu recently, the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said he would give the president one year of grace before rating his performance in office. As would be expected, Tinubu and or Soyinka haters have read negative meanings into that. Soyinka, some have…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is mounting anxiety over alleged maltreatment and forcible administration of COVID-19 vaccine on inmates of the Kirikiri Correctional Centre in Lagos. Sources alleged that six inmates died after recent administration of the vaccine, while others exhibited speech disorder and abnormal behaviour. According to sources, the inmates, as a result of the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A stowaway has been found alive hidden inside a plane’s landing gear after a two-hour flight to Paris. The unidentified man was found inside an Air Algerie plane which had flown from the northern Algerian city of Oran to the French capital. The total flight time was two hours and 12 minutes,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ongoing annual 2023 Calabar festival has recorded a drop in the number of participating states across Nigeria and the number of countries against what it recorded last year. In the 2022 edition of the international Calabar carnival, a total of 10 countries and 20 states in Nigeria participated in the carnival….
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Canadian government has reopened two caregiver immigration programs from January 1, 2024, offering a pathway for qualified caregivers and their families to migrate and become permanent residents. Gatekeepers News reports that the two immigration programs which are the Home Child Care Provider Pilot and the Home Support Worker Pilot, are 5-year…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An eight-man gang of kidnappers reportedly invaded Lutfulahi mosque, abducting Alhaji Murithador Sadullahi Akanho Olamide, the Imam of Muhadul-iftai-wa-sadah Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, along with businessman Engr. Olayemi Arasi, CEO of Hollarams Technical Services Ltd in Lufuape along Sagamu Interchange in Ogun State. The Guardian gathered that the kidnappers targeted…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The UN human rights chief said Thursday he was “deeply alarmed” by the string of attacks on villages in central Nigeria which left nearly 200 dead, according to local authorities. Armed groups launched attacks between Saturday evening and Tuesday morning in Nigeria’s Plateau State, a region plagued for several years by religious…
