LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a new round of sanctions targeting Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, charging that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “chose this war” and that his country will bear the consequences of his action. The sanctions target Russian banks, oligarchs and high-tech sectors, Biden said. The United States…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)Long queues resurfaced in Abuja on Wednesday as fuel marketers claimed to have run out of petrol, leaving motorists frustrated and commuters stranded. Checks by Daily Sun show that, while most filling stations claimed to have run out of stock, they actually had products but preferred hoarding. The few that dispensed the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Debt Management Office has disclosed that Nigeria’s Public Debt was N38.005tn by third quarter of 2021. This was disclosed in a press statement titled ‘DMO publishes total public debt for Q3 2021’ published on the DMO’s website on Tuesday. It read, “In line with its practice, the Debt Management Office has…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria’s eNaira website has gone live ahead of schedule. And, in the 24 hours following the launch, it received more than a million hits. The CBN stated that eNaira – a central bank-issued digital currency that provides a unique form of money denominated in Naira – would serve…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti soared to at least 1,297 Sunday as rescuers raced to find survivors amid the rubble ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching tropical storm. Saturday’s earthquake left at least 2,800 injured in the Caribbean island nation, with thousands more displaced from…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A potential 3rd wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic has hit Lagos. This is according to a statement by the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwoolu on Sunday. Governor Sanwoolu while giving an update on the state’s battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, disclosed that from the beginning of July, there has been a…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Social media, streaming services and global news outlets including the New York Times and CNN were hit Tuesday by outages, with some users unable to access the sites. Some visitors to the affected websites received error messages that read, “Error 503 Service Unavailable,” while others read simply, “connection failure.” The United Kingdom’s…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was an unimaginable scare in Ushafa community, Abuja on Wednesday, when an explosion occurred near the Department of State Services, DSS, institute and around the exit pipe of the only dam supplying water to the entire FCT residence. The explosion, which occurred around 2 pm, DAILY POT gathered, shook houses in…