LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has rejected a £2 billion offer for the club from the richest person in the United Kingdom and has no plans to sell, according to reports. The Daily Mail reported that Jim Ratcliffe, who has an estimated net worth of £21bn, according to the Sunday Times, made an…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday he is travelling to the United Kingdom to see his doctor. “I will be travelling to the United Kingdom tomorrow, to see my doctor, at his request,” said Buhari on his official Twitter account. Buhari said he will be away for four days and plans…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A London-used phone can land you in jail if you are visiting countries like the United Kingdom, USA, Germany, and South Africa. Tunji Disu, an officer of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), confirmed this in a tweet shared on Sunday, April 29, 2018. According to Disu, most of the used phones shipped…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said the United Kingdom has paid Nigeria the sum of $70m recovered from the Malabu oil controversial deal. The $70m leaves an outstanding of $15m of the $85m which the AGF announced in October last year as…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A new technique for identifying and diagnosing damage to the human retina has been awarded ‘Best Student Paper’ at the industry-leading BIOIMAGING 2018 conference in Portugal. Nigerian doctoral candidate Bashir Dodo, 29, from Brunel University London’s Department of Computer Science, demonstrated a new algorithm for OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) equipment which can…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom government, through its export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), says it will now accept naira payments from Nigerian business owners who make procurement in the UK. The UK department of international trade made this known in a statement sent to newsmen. The statement said the local currency financing…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Wednesday, Britain appointed a “minister for loneliness” to tackle what Prime Minister Theresa May described as “the sad reality of modern life” affecting millions of people. Tracey Crouch, a junior minister for sport and civil society, will take on the role as part of a broader strategy to combat loneliness in…