LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Buhari has appointed Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd) as the new Co-ordinator Niger Delta Presidential Ammensty Program. However, his appointment is yet to be formally announced. Dikio, a retired Colonel in the Nigerian Army and member of 21 Course of the Nigerian Defence Academy(NDA), hails from Mbiama, In Ahoada West Local Government…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rescue workers in Afghanistan searched Wednesday for survivors of flash floods that killed more than 100 people and destroyed hundreds of houses near Kabul, officials said. Troops pulled dozens of victims from the rubble of collapsed buildings in Charikar, capital of Parwan province, after torrential overnight rains fuelled fierce floods that swept…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, approved the implementation of the proposed cost-reflective electricity tariff for the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). However, residential areas classified as “poor” will not be affected by the increase in tariff, TheCable understands. Also, Buhari has approved a one-year waiver of 35 per cent import tax for…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, says no date has been fixed yet for full schools’ resumption despite continues talks between the Federal Government and stakeholders. Nwajiuba said this during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja. He however expressed optimism that the…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigerian minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that he regretted the verbal attack on a Daily Trust reporter Eyo Charles at a press briefing in Calabar. But the former minister did not apologise to the reporter directly and only “hope that this will assuage the pain and anger of anyone…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A driver attached to the Okota, Lagos branch of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) has reportedly eloped with N25 million meant for some automated teller machines, ATM, around the zone. According to report in BusinessLive, the incident took place penultimate week Tuesday and no fewer than five bank officials have since…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Manchester United captain Harry Maguire has been convicted by a Greek court and sentenced to a suspended prison sentence of 21 months. This led to England manager Gareth Southgate dropping him from the national squad. Southgate had named a 24-man squad for their Nations League games against Iceland and Denmark. The 27-year-old…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagosians, as residents of Lagos State, are popularly known, have expressed concerns over the subsisting regime of three weekly market-free days in the state, a development they say is worsening hunger pangs and having a detrimental effect on the fight against COVID-19. Equally important, some of the respondents; among whom are traders,…