LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian naira extended its slump in black-market trading as the nation’s dollar shortage deepened two months after the central bank moved to a more flexible exchange rate to encourage inflows. The currency of Africa’s biggest crude oil producer weakened to 923 naira per dollar, compared with 917 naira the day before,…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRAANGERS)-The 70 per cent drop in vehicle importation into the country coupled with global trade disruption, the flotation of the exchange rate, and other factors have led to a 4.5 per cent drop in revenue collection by the Nigeria Customs Service in the first half of this year, according to a document…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has urged former Lagos state Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be a kingmaker, drop his presidential ambition and back a younger candidate from the south in line with the zoning convention. Okechukwu said,…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has attributed the drop in the revenue it generated from the sale of forms for the 2021 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examinations and the Direct Entry Examinations to the introduction of the National Identification Number requirement into the registration process. It said the NIN requirement made…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It appears Nigerians are in for good times in the new year, as the price of bags of local and foreign rice, onions, pepper, tomatoes, amongst others recorded a significant drop in price. This is according to the latest market survey, carried out by Nairalytics Research – the research arm of Nairametrics….
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Crime in South Africa dropped by up to 40% during the first three months of its lockdown, official figures show. The police minister said most types of crimes went down between April and June – including sexual assault and arson. He added that a controversial alcohol ban during the coronavirus lockdown had…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 28-year old mother, Abigail Agbubla has allegedly killed her two children by poisoning over her husband’s failure to give chop money. I believe something came over her because if she’s okay, she won’t try taking the life of the children she suffered to give birth to. Is she cripple that she…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria Monday reported 288 confirmed new cases of the deadly coronavirus, the first straight decline, to bring the tally in the country to 44, 129, with 20, 663 recoveries and 896 deaths (8 new). The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, said Lagos, the epicenter of the pandemic in the country, added…