LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will restart issuing new mobile subscriptions from next week, the government said, four months after it halted the process in an attempt to curb growing insecurity in the country. Africa’s most populous nation is battling a surge in violence, including a jihadist insurgency in the northeast, banditry in the northwest and…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada has rejected the request of a former member of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Olushola Popoola, seeking asylum in the North American country. Popoola’s application was rejected by the Immigration Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board in Canada because of him being a member of the defunct unit of the Nigeria…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has called on Islamic faithful in the country to use the holy period of Ramadan and offer special prayers for Nigeria, currently facing challenges at many fronts. Obi, in a statement released by his media…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria and China mark their golden jubilee of official relations in 2021, having established diplomatic ties in 1971. And as trade and investment have grown, so has lending, leading to increased focus on the balance of the bilateral relationship. Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has at times had to deny that his country…
Chinese customs officers have made the world’s biggest seizure of human organs in history this morning, a total of 7221 penises of African origin hidden in a refrigerated freight container. Acting on information from an anonymous informer, Chinese officers found the organs in 36 boxes labelled as plantains (cooking bananas) inside a refrigerated container on…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly 20 million people face a food crisis in West Africa and the Sahel region as the vast area is torn by conflicts and the coronavirus pandemic, experts warned Thursday. The situation could worsen between June and August, with as many as 27 million people needing immediate food aid, or nearly one…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain and former Delta State Governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has reacted to the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu response to Bishop Hassan Kukah’s Easter message, describing it as lacking the quality of Presidential spokesman. Recalled that Bishop Kukah in…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has been excluded from the list of 28 countries granted debt pardon by the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Board has approved a third tranche of grants for debt service relief for 28 member countries under the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT). This approval followed two…
