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…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran comedian, Alleluya Akpobome, better known as Ali Baba, has reacted to the tanker fire at popular Otedola Bridge in Lagos, which claimed many lives. In a sober post on his Instagram page, Ali Baba highlighted the inefficiencies and weaknesses of the Nigerian society, which caused the fatal oil tanker explosion. He…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A survivor of the Lagos tanker explosion has narrated what led to the fire accident that happened at Otedola Bridge, which resulted in the death of nine people and destruction of 54 vehicles. The man whose identity was not disclosed, speaking to newsmen at the scene of the accident, said the tanker…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A prominent ljaw leader and chieftain of All Progressives Congress APC in Delta State, Chief Michael Johnny has warned that any attempt to divert the Dockyard, a component of the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, to Lagos or Rivers State will cause fresh crisis in Niger Delta region. Johnny, in…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Bank has granted Nigeria a $2.1billion loan to be used exclusively for seven projects. The development bank in a statement Thursday said the projects cut across supporting Nigeria’s investment in nutrition, access to electricity, states’ fiscal transparency, polio eradication, women’s economic empowerment, public finance and national statistics and reducing vulnerability…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of people were reported to have roasted to death as result of a fuel-laden tanker that exploded along the Otedola Bridge axis of Berger in Lagos with the blaze engulfing at least forty other vehicles. The tanker was heading out of Lagos towards the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when the crash occurred, causing…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has disclosed that in line with his avowed committement to make Cross River state the rice hub of Africa, the Cross River Seedling Factory has gone into full production barely 24 hours after it was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari. This follows the receipt of…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Executive Director, Sales and Marketing of Globacom, Okon Iyanam, was Wednesday night murdered in his hotel in Mowe, Ogun State by unknown gunmen. He was specifically identified by the gunmen and shot pointblank in the neck region. He died instantly. Below is how the killers gunned down a high flyer…