LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has again fallen by four places on the latest Corruption Perception Index, CPI, ranking released by Transparency International, TI, on Tuesday. Although in the 2022 ranking, Nigeria scored 24 out of 100 points, it fell from 150th to 154th out of 180 countries assessed in the 2022 ranking. The CPI is…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Against the backdrop of rising exchange rate and other exogenous factors, importation into the nation’s seaports dropped by 40 per cent, even as importers are abandoning Nigerian ports for neigbouring countries over high cost of doing business Stakeholders who spoke with Daily Sun yesterday, said that incessant increases in Customs duty, falling of naira…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a drop of about 40 per cent in the number of imported vehicles that came into the country between January and October this year through the Ports & Terminal Multipurpose Limited compared to the figure for the same period of the previous year. While a total of 192,287 units of…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Victor Osimhen is out of the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations, the Nigeria Football Federation confirmed on Friday. Also, Super Eagles have invited four new players for AFCON over the health concerns and injuries of some players. The NFF’s spokesperson, Ademola Olajire, made this known on Friday, adding that only the goalkeeping…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court of Nigeria has dropped a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, designate, Nworka Chidi Benjamin 24 hours after his elevation to the rank was discovered to have been done in error. The apex court through The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) said on Friday that the list of Senior Advocates…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Super Eagles manager Gernot Rohr has dropped Maduka Okoye from Thursday’s World Cup qualifying tie against Central African Republic in Lagos. Camp sources hinted that axing the goalie against may not unconnected with his late arrival to camp. Okoye had hoped the October’s back-to-back qualifiers will help him to cement his role…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A survey by the Africa Polling Institute has revealed that Nigerians’ trust in the regime of retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari is 26 per cent. The survey also showed that “citizens have more trust in religious leaders (55%) and traditional leaders (44%); compared to the Buhari government (26%), the judicial system (26%),…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ugandan weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics this week. Then, on Friday, he disappeared. A note has been discovered, CNN reports, written by the 20-year-old insisting he went missing on purpose and does not want to return to his home country because life there is too difficult. Ssekitoleko…