LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Petrol stations in Lagos started witnessing queues few hours after President Bola Tinubu announced that “fuel subsidy is gone”. Daily Trust observed that NNPC stations in Ikeja, Alausa were crowded by motorists who rushed to buy the product. Many private stations were not selling as of the time of filing this report….
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Manchester City on Wednesday demolished defending champions, Real Madrid 4-0 to qualify for Champions League final. City defeated Madrid 4-0 in the second leg semi-final at the Etihad Stadium and qualified for the final on 5-1 aggregate. The English side will now play Inter Milan in the final in Istanbul, Turkey. Bernardo…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former UFC fighter Felipe Colares died on Monday at 29 years old. Colares’ coach Rodrigo Babi told Combate that Colares was hit by a bus in Rio de Janeiro on Monday morning while returning from a training session. He was tended to by first responders on the scene and died while in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several parts of Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, Friday woke up to its version of protests against scarcity of cash in the state with hoodlums blocking parts of the roads in the state capital as early as 8:00 am. The Hoodlums temporarily blocked the Ikwerre Road area of Mile 3 and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A cold virus is running through the France squad ahead of the World Cup final against Argentina on Sunday, affecting at least three players in the squad. Coach Didier Deschamps said two players with symptoms, defender Dayot Upamecano and midfielder Adrien Rabiot, were isolated earlier this week and didn’t play in France’s…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) appears to be enmeshed in a fresh crisis as five deputy national officers are raising allegations of marginalization and injustice. POLITICS NIGERIA learned that the aggrieved officials are upset that they were excluded from the mainstream fold of the National Working Committee (NWC) since the current…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s total external debt has risen from $10.32bn on June 30, 2015, to $40.06bn as at June 30, 2022, The PUNCH has learnt. This shows that there has been an increase of 288.18 per cent in seven years, according to the external debt stock reports by the Debt Management Office. A breakdown…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s inflation rate hit a fresh 17-year high in September, stoked by a slide in the value of the naira that raised the cost of imported goods like gas and liquid fuel. Annual inflation accelerated to 20.8%, compared with 20.5% in August, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics…
