LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos State Taskforce has arrested 51 suspected members of a highway gang notorious for harassing and extorting truck drivers along the Apapa/Oshodi and Lagos/Badagry Expressways in the State. The arrest was effected on Tuesday following a successful operation led by the chairman of the Taskforce, CSP Shola Jejeloye. A media aide…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A District of Columbia appellate court panel on Tuesday unanimously rejected former President Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on criminal charges that he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results. “For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Riot police in Senegal on Monday fired tear gas outside parliament in the capital Dakar, as crowds tried to gather to protest against the postponement of the presidential election scheduled for February 25th, according to BBC Africa. The members of parliament were due to debate a bill that would reschedule the poll…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has blamed the freefall of the naira on the huge sum of $39.6bn spent by Nigerians on foreign education and medical tourism in 10 years spanning 2010 to 2020. Giving a breakdown, the apex bank disclosed that the sum of $28.6bn was spent on foreign education…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium at the popular Mile 3 Diobu area of Port Harcourt on Tuesday when four suspected fleeing armed robbers rammed into traders who displayed their goods for the day’s market. A trader in the market, who simply identified herself as Rachael, told our reporter that they were in the market…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians are feeling the heat, not just from their stoves, but from their wallets as the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), commonly known as cooking gas, has skyrocketed to N1,300 per kilogram. This sharp increase, up from less than N500 in 2018, has sent shockwaves through households nationwide, adding another layer…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency has aid the ban on flights between Nigeria and Niger Republic persists. NAMA clarified that authorised exemptions to the ban include over-flight aircraft traversing Nigerian airspace, aircraft in a state of emergency, and special flights. On July 26, 2023, Nigerien military junta ousted its duly elected President,…
By; Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-If President Bola Ahmed Tinubu led Federal Government is desirous of ending gas flaring in the country, then, the administration should consider as urgent, taking both practical and pragmatic steps to save the people of Ubeji Community, a sleepy Satellite community located around the Warri petrochemical company in Warri…
