LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, fielded questions at the African Economic Congress in Abuja last week on the theme: “Building the Africa we want.” The former running mate to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the February 2019 presidential elections spoke on a number of important issues,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In March 1993, four editors of TheNEWS magazine were sent to Ikoyi Prison by Justice Olugbani of the Lagos High Court, where they spent one week over an alleged ‘criminal libel case’. A dividend of the detention was being incarcerated in the same prison space with Fela, who was then facing a…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In an interview with VOA Hausa Service in Washington DC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar said stories that he was banned from the United States was ‘disinformation’. He also confirmed that the United States is in support of his candidacy. He spoke on Thursday, after his arrival to the US capital, where he lodged…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)— Many people around the world are familiar with Aliko Dangote, a Nigerian who is often described as Africa’s richest man. But Isabel dos Santos, 45, an Angolan businesswoman, is Africa’s richest woman and the eldest child of Angola’s former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who was in power from 1979 to…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of OK Contractor Group of Companies and Okakuro of Agbon Kingdom, High Chief Wilson Okpubigho is an All Progressive Congress (APC) Delta State Stalwart from Ethiope-East constituency. He is an administrator per excellence, an international businessman and has promised to use his wealth of experience…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Government is to sign a Global Memorandum of Understanding with Shell Petroleum Development Company, (SPDC) on the Gbarain/Ubie Gas plant, a multi-million dollar project, which is the largest investment in Africa. Speaking while receiving the Irish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Sean Hoy in Government House, Yenagoa, the…
Comrade Emeka Emmanuel Enwelu is the Chairman, Apapa Chapter of National Council of Managing Directors of Licenced Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) and Managing Director of McManuel Global Logistics Limited, in this interview with NewsRangers, he speaks on various issues and the need for Nigeria as a maritime nation to have a well defined national maritime policy,…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-One woman who is making Nigerians Proud both home and in the diaspora is ,Lilian Ogbuefi.The 22-year -old ,2012 one day Lagos State governor .Ogbuefi ,like the nobel prize winner ,Chimanda Adiche ,has stated being recognized in far away United states of America (USA).She has started winning awards both home and abroad…