LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Dangote Group, Nestle Nigeria and MTN Nigeria, alongside four of Nigeria’s most capitalised companies, lost N1.7tn to the depreciation of the naira in 2023. According to an analysis of their financial statements published on the website of the Nigerian Exchange Group, the listed firms incurred significant losses in the 2023 financial year,…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Drake has lost a huge six-figure sum after betting on Anthony Joshua‘s heavyweight showdown clash against Francis Ngannou on Saturday evening. The rap star was hoping for an outrageous payday of over £1million after wagering on the bout in Saudi Arabia that was won by the British star in two rounds. Joshua…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Nigerian Breweries Plc’s workforce has been reduced by 380 workers as the brewer struggled with the loss induced by surging cost and the naira floating policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria last year. NB joined brewery firms like International Breweries Plc which declared N59.5bn net loss in 2023 and Champions Breweries…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A plane carrying Gambia’s national soccer team made an emergency landing after a sudden loss of oxygen during their flight to compete in the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. A chartered flight Wednesday carrying the “Scorpions” returned to Gambia’s capital Banjul after being airborne for nine minutes when the crew realized there…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hilda Baci, the Nigerian Jollof Queen, who recently achieved a new Guinness World Records (GWR) for the longest cook-a-thon, has been dethroned, barely five months after. The GWR had in June announced that Hilda is the new record holder for the longest cooking marathon (individual), after reviewing all footage of the exercise. 93…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS) – The February 25 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has reacted to the death of 36 Nigerian soldiers killed by armed gangs during an ambush around Kundu village in the Shiroro local government area in Niger state on Monday, August 14. In a post shared on his Twitter…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian doctor based in the United Kingdom has lost custody of his 16-year-old son to the government after flogging him with a belt. This was revealed by a child rights advocate known as pepstalk1 on her Instagram page on Wednesday. She narrated that the Nigerian doctor flogged his son after he…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Kano State have arrested a 19-year-old man, Nafiu Sulaiman, for allegedly “kidnapping himself” and collecting N365,000 ransom from his uncle under whom he works in a cement shop in Garindau village in Warawa LGA. Confessing to the crime when he was paraded by the police, the suspect said he…
