LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says it is incorrect to say the execution process of the economic and recovery growth plan (ERGP) does not truly reflect the needs of Nigerians. He said this in response to a statement made by Bill Gates at the expanded national economic council presided over by…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NESRANGERS)-The present economic templates being used by the Muhammadu Buhari government do not have the ability to address the unique needs of Nigerians at present, American business magnate, Bill Gates, has said. The philanthropist and founder of Microsoft corporation however said Nigeria has the ability to approach ‘upper middle-income status’ like Brazil,…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWRANGERS)-At Nigeria’s normally manic border post of Seme, Lasisi Fanu says business has all but ground to a halt. He and other customs agents who help clear goods coming into Africa’s biggest economy from its smaller neighbor Benin say the long lines of trucks loaded with rice that used to jam the…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Social and economic activities between Kwara and Oyo states have been paralysed since Sunday following the invasion of Ilorin-Igbeti highway by gunmen. Several travellers have fallen victims of the hoodlums who allegedly kidnapped and collected huge ransom from their victims, Dailytrust reports. News of the invasion first emerged on Wednesday last week,…
By Amos Okioma,Yenagoa LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-History was made in Bayelsa state as the management of Bayelsa Queen Football and Bayelsa United Football Club and the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria ( SWAN ) plan to build synergy on how the two clubs would use the media to gain promotion ahead of the NNL/NWFL 2017/2018…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-A Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar on Wednesday sentenced a retired worker of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Godwin Elewana, to death by hanging. Elewana was found guilty of the murder of the 22-year-old boyfriend of his daughter, Douglas Ojugbo. He killed Ojugbo on March 10, 2015 over suspicion that…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced Police Sergeant Jilla Lannubo to death by hanging for extra-judicial killing. The policeman was arraigned for the extrajudicial killing of one Oruyegha Grand in the Agudama area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, on May 13, 2017. Lannubo, a native of Bokos…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The two biggest economies in Africa, Nigeria and South Africa, were wednesday conspicuously absent as 44 leaders of African countries signed a deal to create one of the world’s largest free trade blocs. The agreement was signed at a summit in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, according to the BBC. It is hoped the…
