LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was chaos and panic on Tuesday afternoon at the Alake Sports Complex in Ijeja, Abeokuta, one of the major venues of the ongoing 2024 National Sports Festival, as a fire outbreak sent athletes and spectators scrambling for safety. Eyewitnesses reveal that the fire incident occurred when a diesel truck supplying fuel…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A deluge of more than 20,000 queries crashed the email server of the South African Chamber of Commerce in the United States after President Donald Trump said he would prioritise white South Africans in a refugee programme, the chamber said Monday. Trump and Pretoria are locked in a diplomatic row over a…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) yesterday said that it received 573,519 applications for 3,927 job positions for its 2024/2025 recruitment exercise, just a week after opening the portal. Recall that Finance Minister Olawale Edun had earlier confirmed that the Federal Government approved the recruitment of 3,927 officers into the NCS. Providing an update…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Economic woes continue to befall Nigerians, due to the rising cost of living. Job loss, unemployment, and low patronage in businesses are taking their toll on many. “Many parents have resorted to sending their wards out because they know guests would take pity on these children when they beg for food or…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Investors are literally scrambling for shares of Fidelity Bank Plc as the leading commercial bank’s capital raising continues to gather momentum among all categories of investors. Investors’ appetite for Fidelity Bank is shown in massive subscriptions to its ongoing rights and public offers and voluminous trading at the stock market. Current weekly…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-When shoe salesman Haruna Abubakar voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 and again in 2019, he was one of more than a million Nigerians backing the former army chief in his stronghold of northern Kano State. Home to Nigeria’s second largest city and the economic heart of the country’s Muslim north,…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Diane Kearns sat at her old-school wooden desk, black hair pulled into a ponytail and face devoid of makeup, and prepared to go to war. The Austin, Texas, mother of three was fiercely focused on one thing: finding a COVID-19 vaccine for her 18-year-old son, Dean, whose disabilities include cerebral palsy, seizure…
No fewer than five persons have died in a stampede at the Tii-Ama inks nation market centre in Rumuodara. Thousands of people from Obio Akpor, Emohua and Ikwerre local government areas where told to gather there by their exchangers, Pinkcoin, an online blockchain digital assets firm, to buy market from the amount in their wallet,…