LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has topped the list of countries with the most trafficked women to Switzerland, a position it shares with Hungary, a new reports has shown, reports SwissInfo. Last year, the proportion of human trafficking victims who are also asylum seekers tripled in the Zurich region, according to annual figures released on Tuesday….
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora has called for an urgent review of the Early Warning Signal (EWS) put in place by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria and South Africa early last year. She also said Nigeria must speed up the process…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Senate finally passed the long-awaited 2018 Appropriation Bill, on Tuesday, bringing to an end mouths of horse trading between the executivw and legislature . The budget, which was pegged at N8.6 trillion by President Buhari, was however jacked up by N508 billion thus bringing the total to N9.1 trillion. The…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) has commended Cross River State governor, Prof. Ben Ayade for what it described as his giant step to boost rice cultivation and production in the country. According to the association, the effort of Governor Ayade will make the country self-sufficient in rice in…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja has granted bail to the lawmaker representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye, in the sum of N10million. Justice Nasiru Ajanah granted Senator Melaye bail in his ruling on the application on Wednesday, based on the lawmaker’s health challenge. The presiding judge described the medical…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, has said Commonwealth assisted Nigeria in recovering around three billion dollars stolen from the treasury. She said the recoveries were done within one year. Scotland, according to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, said this on Tuesday in Abuja when she visited the Minister of…
LAGOS MAY 16TH(NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia said that the Ramadan fasting will begin on Thursday across the globe, the official Saudi news agency SPA reported on Tuesday. The new moon of Ramadan was not spotted on Tuesday evening and Wednesday will mark the last day of the Islamic month of Shaaban, SPA said, citing religious authorities in…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Mojisola Dada,of the Lagos State High Court Ikeja, has ordered for the remand of the Managing Director, Forthright Properties Ltd , Isaac Akintoye and two others in prison custody over alleged N120 millions land scam. Others remanded in prison custody alongside Akintoye, are Samuel Okeke and Ifeanyi Ndigwe, they will remain…