LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday sentenced one 34-year-old fake Customs officer, Yakubu Azeez Afolayan, to 20 years imprisonment having found him guilty of offences bordering on impersonation and job scam. The convict was allegedly parading himself as Customs officer. In the assumed capacity, the…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Your dad doesn’t have to be Daedalus for you to know about the dangers of flying too close to the Sun. But the sad tale of Icarus is worth keeping in mind as you read this story. Because as cool as it sounds, taking a flying motorcycle 15,000 feet in the sky…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo State Government has said men of the Nigeria Customs Service raided Igangan and other parts of Ibarapa areas of the state on Friday night, and not unknown gunmen as widely reported. Mr Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Seyi Makinde made the clarifications in a statement on Saturday…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hammed Ali (Rtd) has blacklisted all freight forwarding groups and their leaderships, encouraging Customs officers to operate with impunity under the guise of generating more revenues for the government. MMS Plus findings show that none of the Presidents or Founders of the registered freight…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than seven people are missing after a cargo ship that had been barred from sailing sank off the coast of Liberia, the country’s Maritime Commissioner said on Sunday. The Liberian-registered Niko Ivanka left the capital Monrovia on Saturday morning for a port in the country’s south, despite being under a…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stakeholders in the Maritime industry have appealed to the Federal Government to offer the immediate past Executive Secretary of Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Barrister Hassan Bello a higher appointment. Recall that Freight forwarding association and other maritime industry stakeholders on Monday, converged at Rockview Hotel, Apapa, Lagos to honour Mr Hassan Bello, for…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, says that Nigerians deserve wealth, rather than poverty. He stated that, for all the abundant wealth of natural resources, Nigeria’s poverty situation is unacceptable. Noting that “there are way too many poor people in Nigeria,” he warned that there should not be…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The naira exchanged to the dollar at N504 at the parallel market on Friday, according to the Bureau de Change operators. It had earlier exchanged to the dollar at 500 in the previous week and at N490 a month earlier. According to naijabdcs.com, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s official rate for the…
