LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Customs and Excise, Senator Francis Fadahunsi has called for the resignation of Col. Hameed Ali (rtd.), the Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigeria Customs Service. Part of the reason for the call for the resignation of the customs boss as advanced by the Senator is that the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government has ordered all telecom operators to shut down their networks in Zamfara State. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission in a letter to all telecom operators on Friday said the action was one of the strategies taken by security operatives…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The naira yestaerday traded at all time low of N530 to dollar at the parallel market. The naira also dropped among other major currencies as it exchanged at N620/Euro, N720/ British Pounds Sterling. Also, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday lifted Post No Debit (PND) order it placed on 33 Bureaux…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Amidst the fintech boom in Nigeria and increasingly tight regulations on the industry, African technology giant, SystemSpecs, has called for a balance between innovation and regulation to ensure a healthy financial technology ecosystem that will benefit all stakeholders. According to Ezinne Obikile, the Executive Director in charge of the payment business at…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives Committee on Customs has given the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) two weeks to reduce its 18 cargo clearing stages to four. The committee made the resolution on Tuesday, in Abuja, after an interactive session with stakeholders. It insisted that the Comptroller General of Customs should appear in person…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A section of Abonnema Wharf in Port Harcourt Local Government Area of Rivers State was on Wednesday gutted by fire. The incident has caused panic in the area as several petrol tankers parked in the area made frantic efforts to leave at the same time. The cause of the fire was yet…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has frowned on the persistent extortion of truck drivers through multiple illegal roadblocks by uniformed security operatives from government security agencies, unions and associations along the port corridors, hindering the ease of doing business. The authority said investigations revealed that the combined team of the police, Navy,…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-African technology giant, SystemSpecs, has supported calls for collaboration to engender the sustainability of Nigeria’s fast-growing ICT sector. According to an Executive Director of SystemSpecs, Deremi Atanda, the superstructure that holds the fabric of the society has shifted from physical engagement to one dominated by technology in the post-COVID-19 era. Nigeria, therefore,…