LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria may be on the verge of a second wave of COVID-19 infections, the health minister warned on Thursday, as another official said the country expects to roll out a vaccine by April next year. Osagie Ehanire, speaking at a news conference in the capital Abuja, said 1,843 cases were recorded last…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has condemned the high rate of corruption in the country, describing it as the bane of Nigeria’s development. In a message to mark International Anti-Corruption Day, celebrated on December 9, 2020, Obi lamented that Nigeria, and indeed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday signaled Nigeria’s readiness to reopen its land borders Dshut in August 2019 to curb commodity and small arms’ smuggling. According to him, since neighbouring countries, have now learnt their lessons with the border closure, there is a need to review the decision. But the president, who spoke at…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Police has confirmed the arrival of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairperson of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) from Niamey, Niger Republic. Police spokesperson, Frank Mba, made this known in a statement on Thursday. Mr Maina was arrested by a combination of security and intelligence operatives in Niger and Nigeria. “The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has lamented that a sizeable number of officers of the Nigeria Police Force who should be fighting criminal elements in the country are involved in non-police duties like carrying the bags of the wives of Very Important Personalities. El-Rufai said he is frustrated over the killings in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At 7 a.m. on a recent Saturday, Onomene Adene received a call from a man whose voice she did not recognise. The man said he knew her from church and asked for help getting a package to their pastor. She agreed to meet him at a bank near her home in the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will now face total blackout after the collapse of the nation’s power grid. According to reports, the power grid collapsed in the early hours of Sunday. Confirming this development, Eko Electricity Distribution Company, took to his Twitter account saying that the current power outage was due to system collapse on the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Super Eagles of Nigeria have dropped three places from 29th to 32nd in the latest FIFA rankings released yesterday by the world football governing body. The Three-time African champions who had poor outings against the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone in the ongoing 2022 AFCON qualifiers also dropped in the continental ranking…
