LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Renowned human rights lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, former lawmakers, Senator Shehu Sanni and Nkoyo Toyo, have called on President Bola Tinubu to halt further implementation of anti-masses policies, as Nigerians were experiencing harrowing hardship. Tinubu on his inauguration had announced the immediate withdrawal of fuel subsidy and would later devalue the Naira,…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigeria Customs Service have taken the ongoing foreign exchange reforms to the maritime sector with a 40 per cent increase in the exchange rate used for calculating import duty. The NCS on Saturday raised the exchange rate used for the calculation of import duty from…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In the FESTAC Town area of Lagos State, four men were arraigned on Monday at the Yaba Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding their employer, Think Finance Microfinance, FESTAC Town, of N150 million. Ojimi Ayodeji, the head of risk management for the company, Isaac Eddy, the loan officer, Joseph Setonji, and Juwon Irinyemi…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Muslim faithful prepare for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration, price of rams and basic food commodities in various markets across Nigeria has led to widespread lamentation among Nigerians, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Different market surveys conducted by NAN correspondents in various states of the federation on Sunday, showed that the situation…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some aggrieved personnel of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in Ekiti State have accused the authorities of maltreatment. According to some of them, they have been turned into domestic workers by top officials of the command. They added that they have not been paid their allowances for the 2023 general elections. “The…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unnamed Naval rating has been killed by unknown gunmen around Ajegunle in Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State, a development that has caused tension in the area on Sunday. Some gunmen had opened fire on the Naval rating, who was said to be alone during the attack. The attack came…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lecturer at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Prof. Samuel Oluwalana, has said Nigeria is losing a huge amount of money for its failure to export human faeces, cockroaches, as well as, scorpions to foreign countries. The lecturer noted that the American government gets $3.5 billion every year because it is…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The council chairman of the Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Mr Emmanuel Ajah, has confirmed the arrest of eight kidnappers who killed a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Emmanuel Igwe, along Ishiagu-Mpu road last Sunday. Recall that the suspected kidnappers abducted the wife of the victim and…