LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Caretaker Management Committee of Balogun market, Lagos Trade Fair Complex, has shifted its resumption, earlier scheduled for Jan. 4, to Jan. 11, for security reasons, the Secretary of the committee, Mr Leonard Ogbonnia has said. Ogbonnia said in a statement on Sunday, in Lagos, that it would be risky to reopen…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS0-The Federal Government has signed a $10 billion development and Engineering, Procurement and Constructive (EPC) implementation framework agreement with a US firm: Sun Africa LLC. This agreement was signed on Wednesday at the US-Africa Business Forum (USABF) in Washington D.C. with the largest US renewable energy company operating in Africa. The pact,…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Miss Chidinma Ojukwu, who allegedly killed the Super TV CEO, Micheal Ataga, has been crowned “Miss Cell, 2022” at the Kirikiri correctional facility. Ojukwu, a 21-year-old student of the University of Lagos, who allegedly stabbed her victim to death in Lekki, Lagos in 2021, emerged Miss Cell 2022 in a beauty pageant…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, was absent on Thursday when President Bola Tinubu flagged off the reconstruction of the deep seaport access road in Epe, Ijebu-Ode area of the state. Several dignitaries, including Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno, and Femi Hamzat, deputy governor of Lagos, attended the event. Sanwo-Olu’s seat was clearly labelled,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Consequences from the recent alleged siege of the Benin residence of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, seem to be unfolding, as the Special Adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki on Security, Mr Andrew Momodu, was arrested Sunday night by policemen from Abuja over the incident. Following the…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rising from its closed door session, President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, said the lawmakers revolved to declare the IG persona non grata, stressing that he is not fit to hold any public office in Nigeria or any other country. Saraki recalled that a court, which the Police boss approached over his…
http://ift.tt/2xAVT5u Sagay LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The national leadership of the governing All Progressives Congress has issued the statement below, launching a blistering attack on the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay (SAN). In the statement, the party described Mr. Sagay as arrogant and a rougue elephant who has no…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-About two months ago, the Nigerian government announced the closure of the country’s land borders to all goods. According to the country’s Comptroller-General of the Customs Service, Hameed Ali, this was done to stem the influx of smuggled goods, especially rice and tomatoes, into the country. The border closure is an economic…