By Amos Okioma LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Douye Diri was sworn in as governor of Bayelsa state paripasu with Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo as his deputy governor after the supreme court had nullified the election of the APC governor elect , David Lyon who received the information while rehearsing at the Samson Siasia Sports Complex, Ovom…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)- People with little or no knowledge of history become jittery when they are confronted by challenging events. Jamaican political activist Marcus Garvey said “a people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” In the past six months, the world has been battling…
By Adumaza Joe Sanni LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS )-Recently, members of some of the Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarding Associations have been up in arms against the Shipping companies and Terminal operators, through the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), for the waivers of demurrages and rents accumulating due to the…
By Egbegi Alfred LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- I was caught hands down by the curfew yesterday. I had promo the Izon-Link publication the other day but I discovered an error and decided to make a reprint before going to the market. That made me leave the press at 9pm. It was behind time and at…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abba Kyari, Kanuri from Borno, who died on 17 April 2020 was a Nigerian politician and former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. In 1980, according to different biographical information on him (aggregated by Wikipedia), he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Warwick, and also received…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true. A briefing on the preliminary results, marked…
By Godwin I. Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS) — As many people are now aware, the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in China has rapidly permeated and profoundly changed the world. While this crisis is first and foremost a public health issue, which has claimed the…
By Michael Owhoko LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Journalism in Nigeria is on the decline, and its credibility is steadily being destroyed. The solution lies in the hands of practitioners. They can reverse the trend if they have the courage to admit the problem. But how prepared are they and, what needs to be done? As a…
