LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The African Development Bank Group and the Africa Finance Corporation, will meet industry and business leaders in Abuja, Nigeria on Monday, 09 July 2019 as part of a roadshow to woo investors ahead of its second Africa Investment Forum (AIF) in November. AIF − the continent’s biggest investment marketplace for accelerated economic…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Shell Companies in Nigeria on Wednesday won the coveted Excellence Award at the Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, held in Abuja. This is coming on the heels of a streak of other industry leadership awards recently garnered by Shell including the best local content company from the Nigeria Content Development…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)Facebook acknowledged Wednesday an outage affecting users in various parts of the world and said it was working on a fix. Online monitoring service DownDetector reported earlier the outage began around 1200 GMT and affected as well as its Instagram and WhatsApp services. #Facebookdown and #instagramdown were trending on Twitter as users…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Boeing Co on Wednesday promised $100 million to help families affected by the deadly crashes of the company’s 737 MAX planes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The multiyear payout is independent of lawsuits filed by families of the 346 people killed in the two crashes, which happened in October 2018 and March of…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) will begin a nationwide strike on Wednesday, July 3, after the expiration of a two-week strike ultimatum issued by the union on June 13 over non-payment of stevedoring contractors. The President-General of MWUN, Mr Abdul-Waheed Adeyanju, made this known in a statement issued in Lagos on…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSANGERS)- Nigerian distributed utility company, Arnergy, today announced it has raised $9 Million in a Series A round of funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries (Norfund), EDFI ElectriFi and All On. “We are excited to enter this next phase in Arnergy’s development…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-You’d assume that being worth $103 billion (£80.8 billion) would mean that all of the niggling professional regrets that you otherwise carry around with you would be sandblasted away. Apparently not, though. Bill Gates is still fairly upset about his “greatest mistake ever”, though admittedly his ‘greatest mistake ever’ is probably of…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JUNE20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) says it has raised some 6,659 entrepreneurs from its gas fields in Bayelsa and Delta from 2003 till date. Mr Igo Weli, General Manager, External Relations at SPDC stated this on Wednesday at a graduation and award ceremony for beneficiaries of the oil firm’s…