LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The outgoing Area controller of Seme Border Customs Command, Comptroller Dera Nnadi has disclosed on Monday 18th September that the Command under his watch exceeded the revenue target for the 2023 with over N122 million in less than 9months into the year. Nnadi who had officially taken over as the area controller…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cryptocurrency usage is growing in Nigeria as Africa’s largest economy grapples with a weakening currency and soaring inflation, New York-based blockchain research firm Chainalysis said in a report on Tuesday. Nigeria’s volume of crypto transactions grew 9% year-over-year to $56.7 billion between July 2022 and June 2023. In Uganda, crypto use is…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service has said it has reduced the number of checkpoints in the corridor along the Seme border to Mile 2 from sixty to three, for ease of business. The Acting Comptroller-General, Bashir Adeniyi, revealed this during his opening remark at the National Trade Facilitation Committee, NTFC, stakeholders retreat…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 general elections has taken to Twitter to celebrate Alex Okosi. This followed Okosi’s appointment as the Managing Director of Google Africa. In a Twitter post, Obi wrote: “I sincerely rejoice with Alex Okosi, a Nigerian who was recently appointed as the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A viral message suggests that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), under the directive of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, plans to re-denominate the Naira by removing two zeroes or shifting two decimal points, accompanied by a transition period during which both old and new Naira would coexist. How true is this claim?…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Africa Business Center will host Nigerian President Bola Tinubu to ring the NASDAQ closing bell on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at the NASDAQ world headquarters. . Press statement made available to NewsRangers via email disclosed that the U.S. Chamber’s bell ringing ceremony with President Tinubu would…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal judge will start hearing claims this week from the Justice Department and a group of states that Google abused its power as a monopoly over online search services. Google is synonymous with looking for information online and has leveraged its massively successful search tool to build a giant business spanning…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Motorists are braced for higher pump prices after the cost of oil climbed above $90 a barrel for the first time this year as Russia and Saudi Arabia extended cuts to supplies. Oil jumped to its highest price since last November, after the two oil-rich nations said they would prolong a plan…
