LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-MultiChoice Nigeria, the country’s leading pay television company, it has been gathered, may soon review subscriptions on some bouquets on its GOtv platform. Industry sources told our correspondent that the review, expected to be announced soon, may see the subscription rate on GOtv MAX, the highest package on the GOtv platform, slashed…
By Asuquo Nuwak LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Apapa chapter chairman of National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) Comrade EmekaEnwelu has condemned the low level of business activities experiencing in the port is as a result of many factors ranging from the issues of foreign exchange policy, system failure, poor port access…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A total of 13,203 mobile telecommunications subscribers in Nigeria changed their network providers for others in May, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said. The subscribers changed their service providers under the Mobile Number Portability (MNP). The commission made this known in its Incoming and Outgoing Porting Activities of Mobile Network…
LAGOS JULY 5TH(NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service, Zone “B” Federal Operations Unit, has impounded an empty petrol tanker, a J5 bus and a truck conveying smuggled rice on the Kaduna-Zaria axis. Usman Dakingari, the Controller, FOU Zone B, dropped the hint while addressing journalists on the seizures in Kaduna on Wednesday. He said that the customs…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has sealed a $475 million bilateral deal with France President Emmanuel Macron to aid a number of infrastructural projects cutting across three states. The initial beneficiaries will include Lagos, Kano and Ogun states. The agreement was sealed while Buhari played host to Macron in Abuja on Tuesday. Lagos aspect…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-nine out of the 55 members of the African Union have signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. However, Nigeria and five other countries failed to sign the deal. This was revealed by AU Chairperson and President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, as he made the announcement in Nouakchott during the…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil fell near $64 a barrel as Saudi Arabia and Russia prepared for a clash with allied crude producers over whether to lift output and as China and the U.S. exchanged threats over trade. Futures in New York dropped as much as 2.3 percent, on course for the lowest close since April…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Italy’s Supreme Court threw out an appeal by Shell and four of its former managers to stymie a trial on alleged corruption in Nigeria, which also sees Eni’s chief on the bench, legal sources said on Wednesday. The long-running graft case revolves around the 2011 purchase by Eni and Shell of Nigeria’s…