LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWRANGERS)-Electricity workers across Nigeria have shut down the national grid, leading to a nationwide blackout. The strike was called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in protest of the assault on Joe Ajaero, the President of the NLC, on November 1, 2023, in Imo State. Ndidi Mbah, the spokesperson for the Transmission…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Naira scarcity is biting harder across the country as banks have limited cash withdrawals, findings by Daily Trust have shown. Residents of Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa and Adamawa and in other parts of the country are expressing concerns over their inability to withdraw huge cash in their banks, raising fears of…
Op-Ed by Director General of ICRISAT, Dr Jacqueline Hughes LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Every year, World Diabetes Day provides an opportunity to pause and truly take stock of a reality that affects over 400 million people globally. Diabetes-related deaths have risen by 70% since 2000, and the surge in global diabetics is projected to reach a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu has linked the financial distress being faced in the country to an alleged bankrupt government inherited by President Bola Tinubu. Ribadu who spoke at the Chief of Defence Intelligence Annual Conference 2023 themed: “Leveraging Defence Diplomacy, and Effective Regional Collaboration for Enhanced National Security”, stated that in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck, yesterday, when a car owner, who was alleged to be running away from arrest, crushed two highway sweepers of the Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, to death at Gbagada area of the state. An eyewitness, narrated that the car owner was on top speed, while trying to evade arrest allegedly by…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has donated N20 million to the Faith Foundation Mission Hospital in Enugu State to set up a College of Nursing Sciences. The former governor of Anambra State revealed this in a post on his X handle on Monday, November 13. According to him,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tension mounts in the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC over the recent appointment of heads of departments in the agency by the management team led by the Managing Director, Chief Festus Ochunogor without carrying the board along. According to our source, the next board meeting might run into…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Donald Trump’s sister was discovered dead in her Upper East Side apartment early Monday morning. Maryanne Trump Barry, 86, was found inside her Fifth Avenue apartment at around 4 a.m. She was discovered in her bedroom and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Medical Examiner will determine her cause…
