LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives Committee on Customs has faulted the plans by the federal government to purchase four new scanners for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). The NSC is planning to purchase scanners, while refusing to repair the existing ones. However, the same committee had earlier okayed the purchase of the scanners…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prostitutes in Dema Growth Point, Zimbabwe are reportedly now accepting buckets of maize and cups of beans as payment from their cash-strapped male clients. Some of the sex workers who spoke to New Zimbabwe, appealed to the government and other organisations for low-interest loans to start income-generating projects to fend for their starving families. One…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A tanker conveying 45,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) on Tuesday morning crashed and exploded at Banire/Ejigbadero Bus Stop, in Egbeda area of Lagos State. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, NEMA, confirmed the development in Lagos. Farinloye said NEMA received an alert at 12.20a.m. that the…
By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Interrogating the role played by southern leaders in the making of the 1979 and 1999 Nigerian constitutions that have decapacitated the south with dimmed prospects for its young teeming generations, is imperative at this point of Nigeria’s history. These two constitutionslaid the groundwork for the current acrimony in…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate has assured that it would pass the Constitution Alteration Bills before it proceeds on annual recess by July this year. This is even as it clarified that the ongoing amendment to the 1999 Constitution is not hampered by paucity of funds. Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Committee…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has engaged a new American lobbying firm to help the group win the support of the U.S. government. The one-year deal is slated to run for 12 months and is costing Mr Kanu and IPOB $750,000, which is over N300million…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran fighter pilot, Air Commodore Abayomi Balogun, has said that with the increase in military combat due to the war against terror, more plane crashes involving the military are likely to happen. Reacting to the plane crash that happened few days ago at the Kaduna Airport in which the Chief of Army…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Funny as this may sound, it’s really not funny until you know or get to be in the same shoes as this man. Some people are damn so crazy with the way they behave when it comes to handling other peoples things, what stood out for me when I came across this…
