LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hired as a so-called tax collector by several influential families, Captain Nwokuha has a fearsome look as he walks around with a piece of wood to enforce his authority at a busy and chaotic road junction in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt. The 34-year-old’s job is to collect “taxes”…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Anambra Governor and presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has denied reports that he is aspiring for the 2027 presidential election from 2023. In a statement on his Twitter handle, Obi said the reports are “bogus” and that he has never granted any interview or press remarks to…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Strikes by airport and airline staff grounded hundreds of flights and left thousands of travellers stranded in Europe on Saturday at the height of the busy summer tourism season. In Italy, some 1,000 flights, both domestic and international, were cancelled as a result of the strike by ground crew, according to airport…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has stated that President Bola Tinubu must probe everyone who worked under former president, Muhammadu Buhari to “vomit what they have stolen.” The cleric also claimed that if the Nigerian government failed to negotiate with bandits, the Boko Haram terrorists would soon hijack them. Gumi…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Inter Miami will celebrate the signing of Lionel Messi on Sunday but will do so after their winless run extended to 11 games with a 3-0 defeat at St. Louis City on Saturday, leaving them rock bottom of Major League Soccer. Miami confirmed the arrival of Messi hours before their game kicked…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The brain behind the hacking of a leading global crypto firm, Afriq Arbitrage System, Abayomi Segun Oluwasesan, has been arrested. The arrest of the Nigerian was effected by the International Police in Nigeria after he had stolen billions and fled. Though Oluwasesan initially claimed that some Arabian hackers were the brain behind…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 19-year old female POS operator, Ojuolape Adejoke, has been arrested and charged in Lagos State for allegedly swindling her boss to the tune of N1.5m by diverting money from the POS machine to her mother. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Delight Business Centre located at Alhaja Idiat Toyin Oki…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The forex reform of President Bola Tinubu is seen to be having a positive impact on inflow of remittance into the country. The reform aims to address the challenges of foreign exchange by floating the Naira, allowing market forces to determine the exchange rate. Many Nigerian big firms have since then…
