LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said the electricity tariffs being paid by consumers will increase in April this year. NERC disclosed this in its ‘December 2019 Minor Review of Multi-Year Tariff Order 2015 and Minimum Remittance Order for the Year 2020,’ which was dated December 31, 2019. It said the order,…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chad’s months-long mission fighting Boko Haram in neighbouring Nigeria has ended and its 1,200-strong force withdrawn. An army spokesman disclosed this to AFP on Saturday. “It’s our troops who went to aid Nigerian soldiers months ago returning home. They have finished their mission,” spokesman Colonel Azem Bermandoa told AFP. “None of our…
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…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Comic actor, John Okafor, aka Mr. Ibu has recounted how cannibals nearly ate him up at a film location in a remote part of Nigeria. Speaking during a recent chat with Daily Sun, Mr Ibu said his colleagues had mistakenly left him on set, after shooting in the night. He said that…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A policeman identified as General Corporal Francis Agyemang with service number 41597, on New Year’s day, reportedly drunk himself to death at Goza’s Pub a popular pub close to Oman Fm in Accra. According to a police situational report sighted by MyNewsGh.com, the deceased policeman went to the spot in the company…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A newly constructed section of Lagos-Badagry Highway was on Friday, declared open for public use by Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, fulfilling the promise made at inception of his administration. The construction of the 4-kilometre section, which stretches from Agboju to Trade Fair, started shortly after the current administration took off….
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Barely 24 hours after a building was gutted by fire at Third Marine Gate in the heart of Warri, another building, a secondary school, was on Friday engulfed by fire at Aladja Grammar School in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. The incident occurred at about 4:21 p.m on Friday, January…
