LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director-General, Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Engr. Osita Aboloma, will tomorrow in Lagos meet with maritime stakeholders on the agency’s new operational system. The event, which holds at the Rockview Hotel, Apapa, has as its theme: “Facilitating Trade Through SON Automated Services”. THE POWERFUL PEN learnt that the 10.00am sensitisation event…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, have been reported dead on Sunday from a ghastly road accident in Akwa Ibom State. It was reported that the yet-to-be identified officers died while their van was chasing a Toyota Sienna bus, suspected to be conveying rice at Urua Ita, Oron axis section…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria Head of States, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), on Sunday, led a prayer rally against killings, Boko Haram attacks in North East region and Nigeria at large. Gowon who is also the National Chairman of ‘Nigeria Prays’, speaking during the one-day prayer rally held in Bauchi, said the prayer rally was…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS-No fewer than ten people were reported to have been killed assuspected Fulani herdsmen blocked Benin –Ore road for hours .Although the report was unofficial. Passengers have been left stranded and calling for help in a virile video circulated online. According to a voice over report in the footage circulating on social…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some 70 members of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) on Monday bemoaned the nonpayment of their severance package 10 years after they were sacked by Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) subsidiary of US firm ExxonMobil. They said that they were disengaged in 2009 before the expiration of their employment contacts…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 40-year-old man, Paul Okwudili, died in the wee hours of this morning of Monday, February 24, 2020 while having sex with a lady at a hotel in Onitsha, Anambra State. The deceased, who resided at Ogboliolosi off Awka Road Inland town Onitsha, allegedly took the unidentified 30-year-old lady to the hotel…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the permutations for the 2023 Presidency begin to dominate political discourse nationwide, Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has said the Presidency should rightly return to the Southern part of the country. Although the governor, acclaimed to be a major strategist of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, did not specify…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS) – The African Development Bank, in collaboration with the government of Nigeria, has held a meeting with stakeholders to discuss details around Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones in Nigeria. A workshop was held in Abuja from 17 to 18 February to address the categorization and location of the SAPZs, which are meant…
