LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 687,000 current and former Illinois residents who filed claims for a cut of Google’s $100 million biometric privacy class-action settlement can expect to see payouts of about $95 each. Any person who appeared in a photograph in Google Photos between May 1, 2015, and April 25, 2022, while they were…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At a ceremony in November, the Nigerian government celebrated the discovery of as many as 1 billion barrels of oil in the country’s arid northeast, almost 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) away from the crude-rich Niger Delta. The state’s partners in the multi-billion dollar project in the impoverished, landlocked corner of the country…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some senior staff of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) have accused the Director General of the agency, Bashir Jamoh of nepotism. Some of the staff who accused of nepotism alleged that since his assumption of office in March 2020, Jamoh has consistently appointed only northerners to head most of…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The reported drop in the price of cooking gas in the country has ignited heated reactions among Nigerians on Twitter. On Sunday, Wale Adedayo, a freelance writer, took to the microblogging platform to share a receipt for cooking gas purchased on June 1. The receipt showed that 12.5 kg of cooking gas…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cargo clearing at the nation’s seaports has suffered setbacks as different units of the Nigeria Customs Service now issue indiscriminate queries on laden containers, leading to long delays for cargo owners. As a result, importers and their agents now spend a minimum of two to three weeks to resolve the queries and…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Journalists under the aegis of Congress of Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners (CONMMEP) mourn the death of the President of Maritime Journalists Association of Nigeria (MAJAN) Mr. Ray Ugochukwu. Ray Ugochukwu died on Thursday after a brief illness. CONMEP in a statement signed by its President, Alhaji. Tunde Umar-Daniah said, “We mourn the…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congess (NLC) has declared a nationwide strike from next Wednesday. NLC President Joe Ajaero made the announcement after an emergency meeting of the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) in Abuja. The congress said it took the decision due to the fuel shortages across the country, following President Bola Tinubu’s…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Importers have condemned the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s over its denial that the Naira has been devalued. In an interview with BusinessDay, an importer, who craved anonymity, asked the CBN to be truthful. In its report titled, “Business leaders insist they get dollars at N630 despite CBN denial“, BusinessDay quoted manufacturers…