LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday night, assured the leaders of the organised labour that the Port Harcourt refinery will commence operations by December 2023. The organised labour revealed this in a statement on Wednesday night. The labour centers also noted that the president made a series of promises following which they agreed…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie are separating after 18 years of marriage, marking an end to an unusually high-profile partnership for a leader from the country. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, 48, a former television reporter in her home province of Quebec, has been on the campaign trail with Trudeau,…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-General Salifou Mody, one of the Niger officers who seized power in a military coup last week, visited Mali on Wednesday, according to the Mali presidency, amid speculation of a possible interest in the Wagner mercenary group, which has a presence in the country. Mali’s transitional president, Assimi Goïta, hosted Mody and…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Diplomatic and economic sanctions imposed by Niger’s neighbors in the wake of a coup are beginning to bite, as the junta begins talks with regional leaders about the political crisis, the nation’s ambassador to the US said. The “sanctions have started having an effect in Niamey as we speak,” Kiari Liman Tinguiri…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Breweries (NB PLC) has announced a price increase on all their products effective August 10, 2023. In a letter seen by Nairametrics and dated 1st August 2023, the company established the need to review prices due to the soaring rise in input costs and the necessity to cushion its impact. It…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday granted the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, leave to serve the Director General, Department of State Services, Mr Yusuf Bichi, the order of the court admitting him to bail and directing his remand in the…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (MEWSRANGERS)-The political standoff in Sierra Leone over the rigged June 24, 2023 elections is escalating. A Disturbing rumour which had been going around that senior military officers from the North were being rounded up was confirmed today when the Sierra Leone Police released a public statement announcing that it has indeed arrested…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The phone of Mr. Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25, 2023, election, which was widely reported to have been stolen at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) yesterday, Tuesday, August 1, 2023, has been found. According to Mr. Valentine Obienyem, Media Adviser of the…
