LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has responded to the allegation that he worked for a former Head of State, the late General Sani Abacha. In a post on X on Wednesday, Obi released a document from 1996 to debunk the allegation that he worked for…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An historic intercontinental rail link is aiming to link Europe to Morocco with an ambitious underwater tunnel. The Moroccan National Company for Strait Studies (SNED) announced last week it is are starting feasibility research on a revived 40-year-old train project that can connect Europe and Africa by 2030. The project highlights a…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government says it has invited Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, over his comments on the activities of bandits in the country. The Minister of Information and Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this while addressing journalists at the State House, Abuja, on Monday. Idris said Gumi was not above…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President-elect, Bola Tinubu; Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola; Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; a former Osun State governor, Gboyega Oyetola, and an associate, Oladipo Eludoyin, have been allegedly linked to 20 properties bought in the United Kingdom when he (Tinubu) was serving as Lagos State governor. According to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The corresponding memorandum was signed by National Nigerian Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Moroccan Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM), and ECOWAS Energy Commissioner. The proposed pipeline would connect the Nigerian and Moroccan gas networks, enabling Nigeria to supple both Europe and West Africa with its natural gas. The project involves 16 African…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has announced that the Lagos-Ibadan Rail has been officially connected to the Apapa port complex. The construction company disclosed this in a tweet on Monday. “On the morning of Jan. 25, 2021, with the successful pouring of the last 25-meter monolithic track bed superstructure of Apapa…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has mandated all network service providers in Nigeria to link customers Nationa Identification Number with their sim card in other to reduce theft, kidnapping and terrorism. It interesting to see they have made the process easy, you don’t have to visit their office and do it physically, just visit…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has lambasted private aircraft charter operator, Executive Jet Services, for linking him to the flight which took singer, Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley, to Abuja over the weekend. The singer, alongside ex-Big Brother Naija housemate, Kim Oprah, and eight others boarded the company’s flight…