LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bureau de change operators in Adamawa State are rejecting foreign currencies from customers due to growing uncertainty in the parallel market. Some of the money changers interviewed at Jimeta Modern Market in Yola said they were apprehensive over the sudden and continued crash of the dollar which destabilized the parallel market. The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for calling on Nigerians to shun ‘money bags’ politicians. Obi made this commendation in a statement via his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday. He said, “I share fully in the sentiments and views attributed to H.E President @MBuhari on the…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Igbo leaders, on Wednesday, reiterated their aversion to the taking the position of the Vice President in any of the major political parties in Nigeria, a position they started drumming up early enough in the current political arrangement in the country. But it comes as they threw their weight firmly behind Peter…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Workers, marketers and transporters as well as residents of Awka and other communities of Anambra state on Monday ignored order by Gov. Charles Soludo, to resume normal socio-economic activities against the Sit-At-Home directive by the Indigenous People of Biafran (IPOB). Our Correspondent investigation at the various markets within Awka, the state capital,…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Random search of phones and laptops of persons by policemen in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, has continued despite the order by the state Police Commissioner, Tuesday Assayomo, banning the action. In the latest incident, which occurred on Friday, one Adeyemi was stopped by a police patrol team in a pickup vehicle at…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Four frontline entertainers and activist involved in the #EndSARS protests against police brutality, Folarin Falana, Debo Adebayo, Seun Kuti and Dele Farotimi have declined the invitation by Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to join a “walk for peace”. The development is sequel to the offer made by the governor on Tuesday, inviting…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The usual high patronage of Point of Sale (PoS) services in the country is in reverse trend as bank customers now resort to Automated Teller Machines (ATM) and other channels like online banking, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), among others. In the heat of COVID-19, last year, banks and other financial companies…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Undeterred by the Federal Government’s ban of Twitter operations in Nigeria, Nigerians logged on to the microblogging site in large numbers on Saturday to lambast the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN). The ban took effect barely two…
