By Ifreke Inyang LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Tuesday evening, Nigerians squirmed for 90 minutes, as their national team played out a 1-1 draw with Cape Verde in their final 2022 World Cup qualifying. The result was enough to send the Super Eagles into the playoffs in March 2022. But it wasn’t enough to fill fans…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) worsened in Abuja, yesterday, amid signs the trend could spread across the country. Motorists spent hours of their productive day on queues, as haulage companies and marketers raised concerns over changes in retail price. The development was further fueled by the implementation of the Petroleum Industry…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo has called on the House of Representatives Committee on the Nigerian Navy (NN) to continue to support the quest to reposition the Service for a more effective discharge of its constitutional responsibilities. Vice Admiral Gambo made this plea while defending the 2022…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor has urged military spokespersons to continue to leverage on the various communication techniques and platforms to tell the story of the Armed Forces of Nigeria in order to gain the trust and confidence of the civilian populace. The CDS gave the charge today…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The lingering shortage of foreign exchange in Nigeria has forced the naira to crash against the United States dollar on the air ticket pricing template of the International Air Transport Association, the Switzerland-based trade body representing over 290 global airlines. As a result, airfares on Nigeria routes which are priced in naira…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-London-based news magazine, The Economist, has described the government of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as inept and high-handed, adding that he had also failed to tackle corruption. The 178-year-old magazine said this in an editorial titled, ‘The Crime Scene at the Heart of Africa,’ which was published in its…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Borno state, the epicentre of an ongoing Islamist insurgency, will shut all camps that are holding thousands of internally displaced persons by the end of the year, its governor said on Friday, citing improved security in the state. The conflict between the insurgents and Nigeria’s armed forces has also spread to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rocking back and forth, Shlomo Ben Yaakov reads from a Torah scroll at a synagogue on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Intermittently his soft mellow voice rises in Hebrew and he is joined by the dozens who recite after him. Most do not fully understand the language, but this small Nigerian…
