LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the European countries and global financial institutions to consider reducing the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Nigeria and other African economies by restructuring debt portfolios and providing complete debt relief. Mr Buhari made the call at the Financing Africa Summit held at the Grande…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House Of Representatives is set to legalise the use of Indian Hemp in the country for economic benefit. Spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu said this during a press conference on the benefits and opportunities of Cannabis in Akure, Ondo state capital. Kalu said that the House…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The phrase that Nigerian militant group Boko Haram had been “technically defeated” is ringing increasingly hollow. Seven months into his first term in 2015 President Muhammadu Buhari coined the term, but the group and its offshoots have never gone away. The military has managed to retake territory and dislodged the fighters from…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian police have just nabbed four suspects from Niger Republic who have confessed to selling four hundred and fifty rifles and ammunitions to bandits in Nigeria. The suspects, whose leader identified himself as Shehu Alli from Niger Republic, were nabbed in Zamfara state and they have now confessed to supplying arms to…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to stop the blame game and urgently salvage the nation from becoming a failed state. In a letter to the government yesterday, titled, ‘The Endless Martyrdom of Youth,’ he stressed the need to “stop improvising with human Lives. Youth –…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Bank says Nigeria now has the highest percentage of the population without access to electricity globally, overtaking the Democratic Republic of Congo in unreliable and widespread blackouts. According to the bank, over twenty-five percent of Nigeria’s population has no access to electricity supply, this was stated during a virtual engagement…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Nigeria continues to bill over five million electricity customers arbitrarily amid rising cost of electricity, some meter assemblers in the country have started exporting the facility to other African countries to survive alleged Federal Government’s flawed policies. The novel development bolstered by opportunities in the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA),…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian merchant Feyintola Bolaji, struggling with stagnant earnings and dwindling sales, is now being squeezed by the ever increasing prices demanded by her food suppliers, leading her to cut down on the amount she can put on her own family’s table. Bolaji’s belt tightening is being shared by millions across Africa’s most…
