LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria may lose five thousand direct jobs as Procter & Gamble, a multinational consumer company, announced its plan to exit the largest African economy 31 years after coming to the country. On Wednesday, P&G chief financial officer Andre Schulten disclosed that the company will turn Nigeria into an import-only market. Consequently, the…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lionel Messi’s time at Barcelona appears to be over. Barcelona announced Thursday that Messi will not stay with the club, saying that the Spanish league’s financial regulations made it impossible to sign the Argentina star to a new contract. He is leaving after 17 successful seasons in which he propelled the Catalan…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is currently in an emergency meeting over the resignation of some deputy national officers of the party. The meeting, a party source said, is not unconnected with the leadership crisis over pressure being brought on the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, to resign his…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ondo, Delta, Cross River, Enugu, Benue and Akwa Ibom state governments on Sunday faulted the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over the existence of a gazette, which marked out grazing routes for cattle across the country. Officials of the state governments, who stated this in separate interviews with The PUNCH, also…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A US presidential nominee has never died or had to withdraw from a White House race this close to an election. But President Donald Trump’s hospitalization for coronavirus just a month from the November 3 vote has raised the question of what happens if such an event should occur. Trump is 74…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Lionel Messi’s exit from Barcelona is “irrevocable” according to prospective Camp Nou presidential candidate Toni Freixa, who expects the superstar forward to join Manchester City. Messi shook world football last week by handing in his notice to leave Barcelona, who he joined as a 13-year-old. The six-time Ballon d’Or winner’s future could…