LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s external reserve has fallen below the $40 billion threshold it had maintained in over three months. This is according to data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The reserve had endured a continuous decline in recent months owing to the intervention of the apex bank in the official FX market…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leading energy company, Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG), has received accolades from industry regulator, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), for deliberate and active investment in Nigeria’s critical gas infrastructure to supply gas for powering industries in key locations in the country. The Chief Executive of NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, said…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Comptroller General, Nigerian Customs Service, CGC,(Col) Hameed Ali (retd), last week inaugurated 18 gun boats and scanners in Rivers State. The 18 gun boats, our Correspondent reports, would be used by the Eastern Marine Command, EMC, of the service to reduce to the barest minimum if not eradicate the menace of smuggling…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has released a guide for bank customers and others on how and where they can lodge complaints against financial institutions regulated by it. The financial institutions include commercial banks, microfinance banks, primary mortgage institutions, and discount houses. The CBN noted that it had earlier issued a circular…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The world’s largest rolex weighs 204.6kg (32st 3lb) and is 2.32m (10ft 6in) long. If you’re struggling to imagine how that could fit on your wrist then forget the Swiss watch brand and think East African street food. As Ugandans have been known to say: “We don’t wear Rolex, we eat them.”…
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh has reiterated that his Agency has achieved 43.6 percent increase of vessels survey in 2021 when compared to what was recorded in 2020. Bashir Jamoh who made the revelation during a press conference on Friday at the NIMASA…
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On December 31, 2021, Bankole Clement woke up happy to see the last day of the year. Like many people, he had exciting New Year celebration plans for himself and his family. He was looking forward to entering 2022. But Bankole soon started receiving debit alerts for transactions he never carried out….
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Friday said its men intercepted a bus conveying religious books which contained cocaine weighing 11.913 kilogrammes with a street value of N3.9 billion. In a statement by the spokesman of the command, Hussain Abdullahi, the command disclosed that officers and men…
