LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWRANGERS)-Nigeria is considering selling naira-denominated bonds abroad next year to fund infrastructure projects, Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said. Africa’s biggest oil producer faces a significant increase in financing needs as it struggles to boost revenue required to fund increased spending on infrastructure. Almost 60% of Nigerians don’t pay tax and the state…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-In a major seizure, police in Goa, western India on Tuesday arrested a Nigerian Ifeanyi Pascal Obi, a.k.a Alex and confiscated drugs worth about Rs 3 crore(about $400,000) from him, local media reported on Wednesday. Tuesday’s haul was a massive one considering that the value of the seized drugs was the same…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-WHAT kind of President is Muhammadu Buhari? In moments of national crisis, he abandons his duty post in preference for foreign trips of dubious value. Showing scant interest in domestic affairs, the President has embarked on another international trip, this time, to Sochi, Russia, for a three-day summit on gas and trade….
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has called for the improvement in infrastructure in the country to reduce the suffering of Nigerians even when it is totally avoidable. Obi was speaking to journalists in Lagos on Monday. The former Anambra State Governor, who spoke extensively on…
Man LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A religious celebration was marred by tragedy this week as a man participating in a traditional Islamic mourning ritual accidentally beheaded himself. Mohammed Sayum was displaying his prowess at swordsmanship in the Nalanda district of Bihar, in east India, as part of a ritual procession known as the Mourning of Muharram….
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), the lawyer to the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibraheem Elzakzaky, on Wednesday, described as worrisome the tense security situation put up by Nigerian forces around the Indian hospital where the cleric and his wife, Zeenat, had travelled for treatment. He, however, said that the situation…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has accused leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, of “becoming uncontrollable” in India. The Shi’ites leader is currently in India for medical treatment, based on a court order. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Culture, Grace Gekpe, alleged this in a statement made available…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Facts have just emerged that the Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky has refused treatment from unknown doctors put in place to treat him in India aside those billed and booked to treat him before his departure from Nigeria. A member of the Islamic Human Rights Commission…