LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid a surge in demand for more cash by bank customers as the Yuletide season approaches, some Deposit Money Banks have slashed the withdrawal limits of their customers. Findings across bank branches in some key cities in the country revealed that many customers could not withdraw the total amount they needed over…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission has directed a Commissioner of Police and former Chief Security Officer to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, CP Abdulkarim Dauda, to tender his letter of retirement from the Police Force with immediate effect for breach of due process/illegal extension of tenure. The PSC took the decision at its 13 plenary…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria destroyed more than 1 million expired doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday after authorities said they could not be used before their expiration date. Faisal Shuaib, head of Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency, said health officials in Africa’s most populous country were left with little choice after receiving…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., was carjacked at gunpoint in a park in Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon, her spokeswoman said in a statement. The incident occurred around 2:45 p.m. at FDR Park in South Philadelphia, where Scanlon had been attending a meeting earlier, said the spokeswoman, Lauren Cox. Scanlon was unharmed, Cox…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says its officers have intercepted imported drugs including sex enhancement drugs and other items along Katsina State axis worth N110.890 million. The Coordinator, Strike Force Zone ‘B’, DC. Useni Aliyu, who disclosed this on Tuesday in Katsina while briefing newsmen, said that the seizure was done from…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal lawmaker Senator George Sekibo confirmed to Channels Television on Tuesday that some senators are planning to veto President Muhammadu Buhari on the electoral act amendment bill. He said they have compiled 73 signatures to veto the President. The 109-member Senate will require a two-thirds majority to veto the bill into…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has rejoiced with and congratulated the Apostolic Nuncio to Trinidad and Tobago, Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu, who was recently appointed by Pope Francis as the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations Office and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre says the continued refusal of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law shows that the 79-year-old Daura-born retired major general likes and benefits from the current electoral system which he complained about in past elections before he won…