LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate and former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has called on Nigerian accountants, particularly women, to lead efforts to curb what he described as reckless government borrowing and wasteful spending. Obi made the call on Wednesday at the investiture of Mrs. Blessing Ngozi Osakwe as the 12th…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A passenger suffering from delirium tried to break into the cockpit of an Easyjet flight from France to Portugal, forcing the jet to return to Lyon airport, police and the company said Saturday. The man was subdued by other passengers and restrained until the jet landed again, French police said. The Easyjet…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has asked President Bola Tinubu to include refined petroleum products in the list of items banned under the ‘Nigeria First’ policy of the Federal Government. But this was unanimously rejected by oil marketers and some industry analysts on Sunday. The ’Nigeria First’…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Hours after President Donald Trump signed executive orders implementing tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China, the three countries slammed the move and promised retaliatory measures. U.S. allies Canada and Mexico said that they would implement their own tariffs in response to Trump’s, a move that signals further economic upheaval among…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A crazed man yelling “Allahu Akbar” tried to open a door in the middle of a flight from Israel to England Monday — before a brave passenger stepped up and tackled him. Victor Troboloni, an Albanian who was on his way to visit his ailing mother in London, grabbed the hulking, unidentified…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ebonyi State Police Command held a “show of force” exercise on Wednesday amid the sit-at-home declared by the Finland-based Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa. The command collaborated with the military, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), and Department of State Services (DSS). The security operatives converged at the police headquarters…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-West African leaders hold a key summit on Thursday as a wave of coups buffet a region struggling with poverty and a long history of turbulence. Emergency talks in the Ghanaian capital Accra were triggered after Burkina Faso on January 24 became the third member of the 15-nation Economic Community of West…