LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-What the rest of the world sees as a sex tape scandal could in fact be the latest episode in the real-life drama over who will become Equatorial Guinea’s next president. Over the past fortnight, dozens of videos – estimates range from 150 to more than 400 – have been leaked of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has berated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the sudden fuel price hike from the comfort of an annual vacation. Daily Trust reports that while President Tinubu who has now headed for France was in London, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court declared on Thursday that it is unconstitutional for state governors to hold funds allocated for local government administrations. The seven-man panel, in the judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, declared that the 774 local government councils in the country should manage their funds themselves. The apex court held that…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Storms battered Texas and Louisiana late Thursday and early Friday with destructive winds and torrential rain, leaving at least four dead, roads flooded and more than 1 million homes and businesses without power — as more floods Friday could plague parts of the Gulf Coast. At least four people died as the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sudan’s military seized power from a transitional government on Monday and soldiers killed at least three people and wounded 80 as street protests broke out against the coup. The leader of the takeover, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, dissolved the military-civilian Sovereign Council that had been set up to guide the country to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-In June 2016, about 13 months after he was sworn in as Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari published a commentary on the Wall Street Journal; he titled it The Three Changes Nigeria Needs. The then 73-year-old was voted into power on the mantra of change and it was a right move to tell…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)- “This is historic.” That’s how one National Weather Service meteorologist described the amount of rain the storm has dumped on North Carolina. Officials raised the death toll to 17 Sunday as rivers swelled to record levels and 570,000 residents were left without power. Although downgraded to a tropical depression, the National…