LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of a Nigerian oil workers’ union are threatening to go on strike if the government does not do more to stem widespread oil theft they say is putting their safety at risk and has cut exports by hundreds of thousands of barrels. Workers with the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Ship-owners may soon heave a sigh of relief as the Federal Government may have unveiled a new road map that may see them actualizing their dreams of becoming ship owners under the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund, CVFF, sooner than later. Speaking on a Live program on Inspiration 92.3Fm Lagos, Shipping on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Hon. Minister of Transportation, ENGR. Mu’azu Jaji Sambo has described the Railway modernization embarked upon by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as unprecedented in the history of this country. He stated this in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State recently while inspecting the ongoing reconstruction of the Eastern Railway Line spanning through Port-Harcourt, Aba,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government is set to disburse the Cabottage Vessel Financing Fund soon to enable indigenous shipping operators to compete favourably with their international counterparts. Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo disclosed this on Friday when he visited the National Inland Waterways Authority, Area…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo has disclosed that work on Port Harcourt-Maidugiri Eastern rail line has been suspended due to insecurity and vandalism of railway properties along the corridor. Sambo who was speaking during the Ministerial inspection tour of the project, Friday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said China Civil…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Air Peace flight has made an emergency landing in Lagos due to a bird strike that got the bird stuck on the left main landing gear. The Air Peace flight P47154 which departed Lagos for Owerri, Enugu State at 12.00 noon on Saturday could not reach its destination, but had to…
By Innocent Orok LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-First, I like to state that the job of a Journalist as the “Watch Dog of the Society” is to inform, educate and entertain the public, based on the writer’s proper interrogation of the issues on the ground with facts and balanced reporting in order not to misled or…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. government said on Thursday it will suspend 26 China-bound flights from the United States by four Chinese carriers in response to the Chinese government’s decision to suspend some U.S. carrier flights over COVID-19 cases. The decision will affect flights by Xiamen, Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines…