LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWRANGERS)-Nigeria’s economy could be leaning against the wind as the country’s external reserves fell to a 13-month low last week, tumbling quickly to $30 billion, the level it was between 2015 and 2017. Last Thursday, the figure slid to $33.79 billion, as it dropped by $30 million. This represented a 0.09% decline…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Watford have reached an agreement with Club Brugge over the transfer of forgotten Super Eagles striker Emmanuel Dennis. The Hornets announced in a statement on their official website, which read: An agreement with Club Brugges has been reached for the transfer of exciting young forward Emmanuel Dennis, Watford FC is delighted to…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected kidnapper has been killed while trying to abduct an expatriate in Dankande, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Bandits were said to have laid ambush for the expatriate at Plan Farm Phase when they were engaged by security operatives. The incident, which took place on 21st June, 2021 at…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling today “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Sokoto State High Court sitting in Sokoto on Monday convicted a Facebook scammer, Murtala Abdullateef, who was said to have presented himself as a General in the United States Army serving in war-torn Syria. Mr Abdullateef was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but was given an option of N200,000 in…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Apo, Abuja, has sentenced a former federal lawmaker, Farouk Lawan, to seven years imprisonment for taking bribes while serving as the chairman of the defunct House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the fraud around fuel subsidy regime in 2012. Angela Otaluka, the trial judge,…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, has expressed support for the 2020 Corporate Sustainable Investor Report (CSIR), a research document that analyses the sustainability progress of companies in Nigeria. The CSIR is a multi-stakeholder developed report led by CSR-in-Action, a foremost African sustainability consulting and advocacy firm. It takes…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Presently, Lagos –Ibadan expressway is totally blocked as trailers and cars were reported to have been set ablaze by on the road leading to gridlocklock. Travelers along the the route are advised to take altanative road. “A case of fire outbreak has been reported along the proposed new Kara Market inbound Ibadan….
