LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Bank has approved a fresh $700m loan for Nigeria to enhance adolescent girls’ learning and empowerment. It disclosed this in a statement published on its website on Friday. The new loan is to provide additional funds for an ongoing project known as the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has reacted to reports that the federal government has increased salary of lecturers by 35 percent. ASUU said it has not been informed of any pay rise given lecturers in federal institutions by the federal government. The National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, stated this in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The management of LASTMA has reacted to report of its officer crushing pregnant woman to death at Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos. A statement released by the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA Mr. Adebayo Taofiq disclosed that the story as presented by online media was not the true position of…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Dangote Cement Plc has said that its cement price is in line with or lower than prices across the West African coast. The company also said that the price of a bag of cement from its factories across Nigeria had not increased, contrary to viral reports across various media. There had been…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST President Bola Tinubu has expressed his deep concern over the political situation in Gabon and the socio-political stability in that country. Tinubu’s reaction came hours after a group of Gabonese military officers appeared on television Wednesday announcing they were “putting an end to the current regime” and cancelling an election that, according…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS) – The February 25 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has reacted to the death of 36 Nigerian soldiers killed by armed gangs during an ambush around Kundu village in the Shiroro local government area in Niger state on Monday, August 14. In a post shared on his Twitter…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has described the sit-at-home directives in the south-east as the handiwork of a criminal enterprise. In a statement posted on his official Twitter page on Thursday, Obi said the sit-at-home orders have been denied by the Indigenous People of…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the last election, Peter Obi, has reacted to the recent comments made by Bill Gates on the surge of young Nigerian professionals leaving the country, in search of greener pastures. Naija News reports that the Microsoft co-founder on Wednesday addressed the ‘Japa’ phenomenon during an…