LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has told Nigerian motorists to either buy petrol at N1000 or the compressed Natural Gas (CNG) at N200. The President said this during a meeting with the company’s executive on Tuesday at the State House, Abuja. He also praised NIPCO’s contributions to the nation’s energy transition efforts, particularly its…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Disturbed by the sharp increase in petrol prices, car owners are abandoning their vehicles to purchase motorcycles and tricycles for private transport. A cross-section of Kano residents, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard, lamented that they could no longer cope with the continued rise in petrol prices, hence their decision to seek alternative…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives from the Lagos State Commissioner of Police Special Squad (2), have tracked a 32-year old man, Damilare Kehinde, who allegedly absconded with two iPhones Pro Max valued at N3m while pretending as a buyer at Computer Village, Ikeja. P.M.EXPRESS reports that after successfully escaping with the phones, he sold it to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The delay in generating call-up tickets for truckers to access Apapa ports for dropping off empty containers and picking up laden goods has been fuelling ticket racketeering at the port. In the past, it used to take two to three days for truckers that entered the Lilypond Terminal in Ijora, which is…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s lower chamber of parliament has rejected the government’s plan to buy a presidential yacht for $6m (£5m), a senior lawmaker has said. Nigerians had criticised the plan as a waste of money on luxuries during an economic crisis. Lawmakers instead moved the $6m to the student loan budget, doubling its allocation,…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two books written on President Muhammadu Buhari were unveiled in Abuja on Friday with guests doling out over N500 million to pick copies of the books The books publicly presented at a ceremony inside the Conference Centre of the State House, Abuja are “State of Repair: How Muhammadu Buhari Tried to Change…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man presumed to be in his 50s has been feared dead while queuing to buy petrol at a filling station in Oluyole Estate. The man, whose identity is unknown, suspected to be an Alhaji was sitting on his steering with one leg on the pedal and the other on the ground…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has raised the alarm that some politicians have been buying up Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, and financially inducing unsuspecting voters to harvest their Voter Identification Numbers. The Acting Chairman of INEC and National Commissioner overseeing the FCT, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Plateau states, Mohammed Haruna, raised the…