LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has approved a minor reshuffle of the Federal Executive Council, removing the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, and the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa. This was disclosed in a statement on Tuesday by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Pope Leo visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque on Saturday, removing his shoes in a sign of respect but not appearing to pray in his first visit as leader of the Catholic Church to a Muslim place of worship during his four-day visit to Turkey. The first U.S. pope bowed slightly before entering the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Junta leader Capt Ibrahim Traoré has portrayed himself as a champion of Pan-Africanism. Burkina Faso says it has removed visa fees for all African travellers, in an effort to facilitate the movement of people and goods into the country. “From now on, any citizen from an African country wishing to go to…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States and United Kingdom are among more than 30 countries who will no longer enjoy visa-free access to Namibia from April. The two countries largely enjoy visa-free travel to more than 180 countries. It follows a decision taken by the Namibian cabinet in July last year and will now to…
LAGOS AUGUST 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s central bank has reported a $7.5 billion loan from U.S. banks JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs in financial statements published for the first time since 2015, sending the country’s international bonds tumbling on Friday. Nigeria’s government has had to seek overdrafts from the central bank to plug a widening deficit amid…
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s sovereign dollar-denominated bonds rose on Tuesday after new President Bola Tinubu said at his swearing in on Monday that a costly fuel subsidy would be removed and the central bank should work towards a unified exchange rate. Eurobonds were up as much as 1.77 cents in the dollar, with the 2029…
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Petrol stations in Lagos started witnessing queues few hours after President Bola Tinubu announced that “fuel subsidy is gone”. Daily Trust observed that NNPC stations in Ikeja, Alausa were crowded by motorists who rushed to buy the product. Many private stations were not selling as of the time of filing this report….
LAGOS MAY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appealed to Nigerians to burry political differences and join him in a new journey of healing, nation-building and economic prosperity. In his inaugural address after taking the oaths of office and allegiance administered by the Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice Kayode Ariwoola, at the Eagles Square, Abuja,…