LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Bank Group has granted Nigeria a loan of $3bn for its ailing power sector. Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed announced the development Sunday during a chat with Nigerian journalists covering the 2019 Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank Group in Washington DC. She said the loan will help…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Seun Kuti, Afrobeat musician and youngest son of legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti, pulled off an electrifying performance with his band, Egypt 80 at the New Afrika Shrine for Felabration on 20th of October, 2019. The venue of the annual event, which was tagged, ‘From Lagos With Love’, the New Afrikan Shrine, Ikeja,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Area Commander, Suleja Area Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Mr. Isa Rambo, has been kidnapped by gunmen around Kaduna, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. A senior police officer told our correspondent that Rambo, who is an Assistant Commissioner of Police, was kidnapped on his way to Jos on Saturday evening. The…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Government Friday alerted residents on the rise of sea water level resulting in the inability of the lagoon to discharge water into the ocean causing backflow into the drainage channels. In a statement by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello, the officials of the state…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has sympathised with Ochanga and Upper Iweka traders and all those affected by the recent inferno that gutted their shops. Obi, who led other PDP members in both the National Assembly and State House of Assembly on a visit…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Edo State Command, Mr Anthony Oko, also confirmed the accident in which seven people lost their live and scores were injured but had “nothing” to do with Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki’s convoy. It was reported that seven persons – five adults and two children…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is calling for a total boycott of all Nigerian products imported to Ghana. The move, the traders union believes, will force the Nigerian government to open up its land borders for foreign goods. Nigeria partially shut its borders since August. According to Ghanaweb, Greater Accra…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has faulted some state governments and communities for allegedly frustrating projects of the Federal Government in the country. In a statement on Saturday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu, it warned against creating unnecessary impediments in the allocation of land or…
