By Bola Bolawole LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-While he was visiting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu recently, the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said he would give the president one year of grace before rating his performance in office. As would be expected, Tinubu and or Soyinka haters have read negative meanings into that. Soyinka, some have…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A new survey of more than 4,500 young people in Africa, aged 18-24, has found that 52% of them are likely to consider emigrating in the next few years, citing economic hardship and education opportunities as the top reasons. The BBC spoke to five young people in Nigeria and South Africa who…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Gov. Peter Obi, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says he has the capacity to fix the political and socioeconomic challenges of Nigeria. Obi made the declaration at a meeting with the PDP stakeholders in Oyo State, on Tuesday at the party Secretariat in Ibadan….
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Frontline Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant for the 2023 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has stated that Nigeria needs competent leaders with integrity, willing to make the much needed sacrifices for the turn around, growth and development of the country. He is, therefore, calling on Nigerian youths to be more actively involved…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-If the directive by the House of Representatives executive by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the introduction of the enforcement of the use of coins as a legal tender to tackle price inflation and stabilise the economy it means Nigerians are expected to revert to the use of coins in soonest. The…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, has explained that Nigeria’s economy, which, he said, was largely consumption-based, needed to become production-driven for a sustainable growth and development to be witnessed in the country. Obi stated that part of the reasons…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian economy may have declined by over 2billion Naira in just one day of Twitter ban. This is if the statistics of Netblocks.org, a mapping internet freedom platform is anything to rely upon. The platform automatically aggregates cost of shutdown tools and estimates the economic impacts of an internet disruption, mobile…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS) – President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday a further easing of South Africa’s coronavirus lockdown from June 1, allowing the vast majority of the economy to return to full capacity. Africa’s most industrialised economy has been largely shut down since late March, when the government enforced severe restrictions to stem the…