LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Yuki Gambaryan, the wife of the detained Binance Holdings Limited executive, Tigran Gambaryan, hass told the US Parliament that the Nigerian Government kept his husband, Tigran Gambaryan, in Kuje prison together with Boko Haram terrorists and bandits. Yuki, represented by her congressman, Rich McCormick, spoke at Tuesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERSNGERS)-The Federal Government has declared Friday, March 29 and Monday, April 1, 2024, as public holidays to mark the celebrations of 2024 Good Friday and Easter Monday respectively. The declaration was made by the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on behalf of the federal government in a statement signed by the Permanent…
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 FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Federal Government to completely phase out electricity subsidy in the country as a result of the hardship Nigerians are facing since the removal of fuel subsidy in May 2023. The Bretton Woods Institution made this recommendation as the mechanism for Nigeria to restore macroeconomic…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s international dollar-denominated bonds fell on Wednesday, after the president’s spokesman said petrol prices did not need to rise more, and blamed foreign exchange shortages on “gross mismanagement” at the central bank. Longer dated notes fell further. The 2051 maturity dropped as much as 1.7 cents on the dollar to 68.894 cents,…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria collected a record 5.5 trillion naira ($7 billion) of revenue in the first half as the government improves the tax-collection process in Africa’s biggest economy, the head of the Federal Inland Revenue Service said. The amount surpassed the 5.3 trillion-naira target set by the government for the period, and collections are…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has alerted Nigerians on the outbreak of Anthrax in some neighbouring countries within the West African sub-region. Following the development, the ministry strongly advised Nigerians to desist from the consumption of hides (ponmo), smoked meat and bush meat as they pose serious risk until…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)Nigeria’s federal government has officially recognised the Oba of Benin as the owner and custodian of all Benin artefacts looted and carted away from the shores of the country by a British military expedition in 1897. This was revealed in an official government Gazette seen by ARISE News. By the announced law,…