LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said that it hoped to see more cargoes moving down to the Eastern port this year. The General Manager Corporate and Strategic Communications of NPA, Mr Adams Jatto, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Saturday. According to him,…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Managing Director of Access Bank Plc, Herbert Wigwe, was on Friday arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Wigwe was picked up at the Bank’s head office in Victoria Island, Lagos State. Sources said he spent the night at the Lagos State office of the EFCC. Although details…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government (FG) has announced that small businesses with turnover less than N25m will be exempted from paying Companies Income Tax (CIT). Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed while disclosing this Monday explained that the policy would be effective once the Finance Bill 2019, is signed into law….
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS) — Last month, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, H.E. Chief Timipre Sylva declared 2020 as the Year of Gas for the West African Nation. In line with this initiative, the Minister and the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari, led by Nigeria’s…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Sunday said no tariff increase was approved by the commission. It was reported that President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, approved an increase in electricity tariff by the Electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos, in the country. The directive of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSANGRS)-ELECTRICITY tariff is going up across the country, and this is official. The 11 electricity distribution companies (DisCos) have the mandate of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to effect the tariff increase from April. These are: Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Benin Electricity Distribution Company, Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, Eko Electricity Distribution…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The travel measures taken against Nigeria by the United States last year are starting to have a clear and, potentially, long-term effect. Data from the US travel and tourism office shows Nigeria recorded the largest global drop-off in visitors to the US. As of October 2019, 34,000 fewer Nigerians traveled to the…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Africa’s leading chemical and agro-allied company, Notore Chemical Industries Plc, has drawn down a ₦13.32 billion facility from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) for a Turn-Around Maintenance (TAM) program to achieve nameplate capacity of its plant in 2020. This was disclosed in the company’s Report for the Financial Year Ended (FYE) September…
