President Trump made a drive-by appearance as his supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., Saturday for a recount rally, where a few pro- and anti-Trump factions later traded punches. The scuffle broke out at the edge of a crowd of thousands of Trump fans who flocked to the heart of the nation’s capital to boost the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brig. Gen. Ahmed Taiwo of the Nigerian Army says that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu invited the military during the End SARS in Lagos to prevent total chaos since the police who are supposed to be on ground had ran away. Taiwo, the Commander, 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island disclosed this when he…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The naira weakened to 470 against the United States dollar in the parallel market on Friday despite the interventions of the Central Bank of Nigeria in the official window. The nation’s currency had traded at N465, N466 and N468 against the greenback on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively. But it fell on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As part of efforts to mitigate the effect of COVID-19, the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says the Federal Government, is in the process of acquiring a 750 million dollar loan, from the world bank to help states. This loan according to her is to stimulate the local…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An object suspected to be a rocket bomb was discovered at the High Court Onitsha division, Anambra State, on Thursday, TheNigerialawyer, gathered. According to the information from our source, the attention of the Assistant Chief Registrar and other lawyers were drawn to it, when a lawyer who was a former military officer…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA, and the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, on Wednesday, disagreed over the content of a suspected toxic waste container abandoned at Berger Suya Bus stop, near Mile 2, Lagos. While the NCS alleged that the content was carbide, meant for export, NESREA, on its…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Speaker of the legislative house of Munya local government area in Niger state, Mallam Musa Alhassan and the cashier of the council, have been abducted along with 23 others by armed bandits in two separate attacks in the state. The bandits went on rampage on Tuesday and Thursday, kidnaping no fewer than…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thedownstream sector of the petroleum industry was yesterday thrown into confusion as a leaked memo from the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) on an increase of the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit(PMS), popularly called petrol created panic among stakeholders and anger within the populace. The ex-depot price is the price at…
