LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday appointed Bismarck Rewane as head of newly inaugurated Technical Advisory Committee on the implementation of a National Minimum Wage. President Buhari at the inauguration which took place at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja, said that after the new minimum wage has been passed into law, government will…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Twenty-two members of the academia from 12 Nigerian universities have begun research attachments at The Shell Petroleum Development Companies of Nigeria (SPDC) in several fields of study in the latest phase of the sabbatical and internship programme of the SPDC Joint Venture which was introduced in 1980. The number represents 13…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kinsmen of former president Goodluck Jonathan have raised the alarm over what they called manifest danger to the electoral fortunes of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State with Jonathan and his wife backing opposition candidates against PDP candidates in the national and state legislative elections. Jonathan has however, dismissed the…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In what seems to be a suspected armed robbery attack, an FRSC driver was killed in an official patrol vehicle along Abuja- Kaduna express way at about 20 kilometres to the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday, 8 January, 2019. In an official statement released by the Corps Public Education Officer, Federal Road…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has expressed regret over the violence that broke out at its campaign flag-off on Tuesday, assuring Lagosians that such would not repeat itself in the cause of the campaigns. The party in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, blamed the…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The official campaign flag-off of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State was marred following several gunshots by miscreants who engaged in free for all. At least two persons have been feared dead, while several others, including journalists sustained different degree of injuries. The crisis started when fight suddenly broke out…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ado-Ekiti State High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced a retired military man, 81-year-old Richard Ogunboyo, to 25 years in prison for killing one Felix Esan. Ogunboyo, who was the head of a vigilante group in Iyin Ekiti, was said to have committed the offence on December 15, 2016, in the community. Justice…
LAGOS JANUARY 9H (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists has completed work on two books to mark the first year anniversary of the installation of Iba Gani Ige Abiodun Adams as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland. The Chairman of the union, Dr. Qasim Akinreti, who disclosed this, said the…
