LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has granted consent to the acquisition of Exxon Mobil’s Nigerian unit by Seplat Energy, in a $1.28 billion deal announced in February. Buhari, who doubles as oil minister, granted ministerial approval to the deal, the presidency said in a statement on Monday. Exxon and Seplat are expected to…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Republican lawmakers and officials accused the Biden administration on Monday night of weaponizing the Justice Department for political ends after former President Donald Trump revealed that the FBI had searched his Florida home. Allies were quick to back Trump’s claim that the unprecedented search of a former president’s home was politically motivated,…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has secured a $1.5 billion loan from the US-EXIM Bank to boost solar power infrastructure in 10 different locations in the country. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SUN Africa LLC, USA, Adam Cortese, disclosed this yesterday while speaking with newsmen after a meeting of a delegation of the company with President…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Widespread anger at chronic insecurity in the West African countries of Mali and Burkina Faso paved the way for military men to kick out failing governments over the past two years. “There’s no more room for mistakes,” said Mali’s coup leader as he seized power in August 2020. “We have more than…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Liberia’s 175th Independence Day celebration turned bloody on Tuesday, 26 July 2022 when government supporters countered student protesters. The ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) supporters calling themselves CDC Council of Patriots (CDC-COP) attacked and wounded several students of the campus – based Vanguard Students Unification Party (SUP) of the State-run University…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Though she is dressed aptly as a newlywed, she is different from other brides. Because Kshama Bindu has not married a man, or a woman – she has married herself. “People look weirdly at me. Like I have committed a crime,” she told Al Jazeera. Bindu’s “sologamy” – a marriage with self…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore, sentenced in absentia to life in jail for the 1987 assassination of revolutionary icon Thomas Sankara, apologised to the ex-leader’s family on Tuesday. “I ask the Burkinabe people for forgiveness for all the acts I may have committed during my tenure, and especially the family of…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Biden, 79, has a runny nose, fatigue and an occasional dry cough, symptoms which he began to experience late on Wednesday, White House physician Kevin O’Connor said in a note released on Thursday. Biden has begun taking the antiviral treatment Paxlovid, O’Connor said. Fully vaccinated and twice boosted, Biden said he was…