LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Germany signed an agreement on Friday to begin sending hundreds of Benin bronzes back to what is now Nigeria, rubber-stamping the biggest effort yet by a European country to return the looted artworks. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Culture Minister Claudia Roth signed the deal with their Nigerian counterparts in Berlin after…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Home Secretary of United Kingdom, Priti Patel has estimated no fewer 400 Nigerian offenders in UK prisons. She announced that the Nigerian criminals are to be sent home to serve their sentences in a boost to deportations. The Home Secretary has signed a deal with the West African country that will…
By Valentine Obienyem LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Our attention was brought to the above campaign of calumny lunched by some faceless groups. Is it by coincidence that it came when we were reliably informed that some political parties have charged their political office holders to hire people to relentlessly attack Obi with falsehoods on all available…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-MoMo Payment Service Bank, the new financial services subsidiary of telecoms company MTN Nigeria, suffered a breach in the last week of May just days after launch, reportedly losing 22 billion naira ($53 million.) Nigerian payment service banks operate with a mobile money license reserved for non-bank institutions. They offer deposits and…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRAGERS)-The Canadian government has announced an acute shortage of manpower and invited Nigerians and other foreign nationals to fill existing vacancies in various sectors of the country’s economy. In a report by Statistics Canada seen by Ripples Nigeria on Thursday, the government said the labour shortage has reached an all-time high of…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari said his successor will inherit a far more resilient economy thanks to investments in infrastructure and policies that have bolstered local production. Under his watch, the government has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen state funds, built new transport links and beaten back militant group…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen attacked two churches in rural northwestern Nigeria on Sunday, killing three people, witnesses and a state official said, weeks after a similar attack in the West African nation left 40 worshippers dead. The attack in Kajuru area of Kaduna State targeted four villages, resulting in the abduction of unspecified number of…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A new survey of more than 4,500 young people in Africa, aged 18-24, has found that 52% of them are likely to consider emigrating in the next few years, citing economic hardship and education opportunities as the top reasons. The BBC spoke to five young people in Nigeria and South Africa who…