LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. Consul General Claire Pierangelo on Tuesday reiterated the importance of Nigeria’s entrepreneurs to the continued growth of economies in the West African sub-region and the prosperity of the continent. Speaking at a one-day capacity-building seminar for the first cohort of U.S. sponsored Tony Elumelu Foundation alumni, Ms. Pierangelo noted that population […]
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LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians may have to do without their favorite delicacy this Christmas. Jollof, a mixture of rice, tomatoes and spices, is practically a national dish in Nigeria. Africa’s most-populous country with almost 200 million people. It’s particularly coveted by the poor at Christmas and other festive periods, when increased demand for its ingredients […]
Dec 23 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Tolaram Group, maker of Indomie Noodles, is building the biggest port in West Africa on the east side of Lagos with $1bn facility from China, according to the Financial Times. A report in Financial Times on Tuesday said the Singapore-based company was set to close financing this week for what could […]
Oct 23 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of towns and villages along the Opara Forest Reserve in Oyo State and Imeko Forest Reserve in Ogun State are living in fear following the invasion of the two reserves by herdsmen from African countries like Burkina Faso, Mali among others. Some residents of Imeko, Iwoye and Jabata told SUNDAY PUNCH […]
Jun 17 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun, has thown his weight behind former President Olusegun Obasanjo statement on ‘Fulanisation’ of Nigeria, saying he was the kind of leader Nigeria needs. Oyegun told New Telegraph that Obasanjo’s comment on “Islamisation and Fulanisation” might have been dramatized, […]
Jun 3 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rodney D Sieh, editor of Liberia’s FrontPageAfrica, reflects on what his career says about the state of journalism in West Africa. “My claim to infamy was being sentenced to 5,000 years in prison for failing to pay libel damages of $1.6m (£1.2m) won by a former minister who sued my paper after […]
Sep 25 2018 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Security (DSS) has arrested two suspected commanders of the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. DSS Spokesman, Mr Tony Opuiyo, said the suspects were arrested in Kukuntu village, Gwgwalada on May 5, after special operations on identified targets. “Determined to continuously thwart the budding cells […]
Jun 22 2018 | Posted in
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The search for a missing oil tanker off the coast of West Africa entered its fourth day Sunday, with no word on the fate of the 22 Indian nationals aboard the vessel. The vessel, Marine Express, was carrying more than 13,000 tons of gasoline and went missing in the Gulf of Guinea, […]
Feb 5 2018 | Posted in
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