LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian importers have continued to further hit in losses running into billions of naira on their cargoes trapped at Benin Republic borders. Daily Sun learnt that the situation forced some importers to pay additional costs to reroute the goods via Togo port to Nigeria. Last month, the government of the Republic of Benin…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Taliban captured another three provincial capitals in Afghanistan on Friday, completing their sweep of the country’s south in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war. The latest significant blow was the loss of the capital of Helmand…
LAGOS AUGUST 13 (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lokoja Chief Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a staffer of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), Mr James Olayemi, to six months imprisonment for unlawful disconnection of electricity supply to the premises of the company’s customer, Dennis Osanwuta. In the judgment delivered on Thursday in Lokoja, the Chief Magistrate, Dr Tanko Muhammed, also…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, visited Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in London, United Kingdom (UK). The President had travelled to London for the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE 2021-2025), which held on July 29. Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, had said Buhari…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former African champions, Nigeria’s Super Eagles, have dropped two places to the 34th position in the current FIFA ranking. The Gernot Rohr lads polled 1480 points to sit 34th in the world and fifth in Africa in the ranking released on Thursday. On the continent, Nigeria is behind Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria and…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian High Commission in London in the United Kingdom has been shut after officials tested positive for COVID-19. Sources furnished THEWILL exclusively with the letter informing of the closure, which will last 10 days beginning from Thursday, when the strains of the deadly disease were detected in the Diplomats. Their infection…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mrs Hadiza Shagari, wife of Nigeria’s Late former President Shehu Shagari, is dead. She was aged 80-year-old. Her family said she died at a COVID-19 Isolation Centre in Abuja on Thursday. She is expected to be buried today. “We regret to announce the demise of our beloved mother, Hajiya Hadiza Shehu Shagari,…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The case in appeal number CA/L/1105/2018 between Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike( a.k.a Evans) v. The Inspector General of Police & 4 Ors was dismissed yesterday in favour of the Police. The Appellant Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (a.k.a. Evans), filed an application for the enforcement of his Fundamental Right for the release of his trucks from the…
