LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government has announced that international flights will resume on August 29. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced the new dates for resumption of flights at the bi-weekly Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Monday. He said the airports will open in batches beginning with Lagos and Abuja. President…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A memorandum of understanding(MOU) which was signed earlier this week by both teams from the concerned countries has set the ball rolling for the Republic of Ireland to return some looted funds which was seized from the country’s former military dictator, Gen Abacha. While signing the agreement at the office of the…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government said on Monday it is working towards getting more oxygen to attend to emergencies as cases of deaths occasioned by coronavirus keep increasing. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and PTF Chairman, Boss Mustapha, stated this in Abuja during the briefing of the task force. The Presidential…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian professor, Cyril Otoikhian, has challenged the Nigerian government and other scientists working on COVID-19 to prove the existence of the virus in the country. The professor of genetics at the Novena University, Delta State, in a Monday morning programme on Channels TV, shocked his interviewers when he argued that the…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has shut down Chinese-owned Panda Supermarket in the Jabi area of Abuja as part of measures to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. The FCCPC said in a series of tweets that it had confiscated some frozen food items illegally imported from China. The pictures…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Comptroller-General of Customs, Dikko Inde Abdullahi has entered into an agreement with the Federal Government to refund $8 million believed to have been misappropriated during his tenure. Consequently, a Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from prosecuting Dikko for financial infraction while…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGRS)-At current levels of over N25 trillion, it means that Nigeria has borrowed in three years more than it borrowed in 30 years previously, and the country to remain peaceful and get the economy working better, it must return to the basics of federalism, as the foundation of her national enterprise. A former…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Super Eagles player, Samson Siasia, needs N36m to appeal the life ban sanction imposed on him by FIFA over alleged match-fixing. Siasia, who made this known on Wednesday, said failure to secure the money would affect his appeal of the life ban. According to him, inability to get the money before…