LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS) – Nigeria got approval on Friday for $400 million in World Bank financing to procure and deploy COVID-19 vaccinations, the bank said in a statement. The World Bank board of directors signed off on the financing, provided via the International Development Association, which it said would enable Africa’s most populous nation…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday gave two reasons the suspended Micro blogging site, Twitter, would be lifted in the country. Disclosing this in his nationwide broadcast to Nigerians to mark the nation’s 61st independence, Buhari said Twitter ban would be lifted if Nigerians continue the use of the platform for business and positive…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria’s eNaira website has gone live ahead of schedule. And, in the 24 hours following the launch, it received more than a million hits. The CBN stated that eNaira – a central bank-issued digital currency that provides a unique form of money denominated in Naira – would serve…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Universities Commission (NUC) has published a list of 67 illegal universities in Nigeria. The Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed signed a public notice on the NUC website. The names include those who claim to be affiliates of foreign universities in the country. In the list below, institutions that have ‘other…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Twitter ban in Nigeria has extended to 100 days, and in that time frame the nation has lost N247.61bn. The Federal Government had on June 4 suspended Twitter after the social media platform deleted a tweet by the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Consequently, telcos on June 5 blocked access to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Heavily armed gunmen raided a jail in south-central Nigeria late on Sunday, blowing up the perimeter fence and freeing 266 inmates – almost everyone in the prison, authorities said. A soldier and a police officer were killed in the attack and two guards were missing, the interior ministry said. It was the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Super Eagles continued their 100 per cent record against Cape Verde in their second match of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers on Tuesday. The Nigerian team won the game 2-1 after staging a comeback. While Victor Osimhen scored Nigeria’s first goal in the 28th minute, the Super Eagles got their second…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government has ordered all telecom operators to shut down their networks in Zamfara State. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission in a letter to all telecom operators on Friday said the action was one of the strategies taken by security operatives…
