LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria collected a record 5.5 trillion naira ($7 billion) of revenue in the first half as the government improves the tax-collection process in Africa’s biggest economy, the head of the Federal Inland Revenue Service said. The amount surpassed the 5.3 trillion-naira target set by the government for the period, and collections are…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s military has sent reinforcements to calm tensions in a troubled northern central state, where local officials say at least 300 people have been killed in three months of inter-communal violence. Plateau State has been struggling since May with a surge in clashes and raids between communities of Muslim nomadic herders and…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s private sector should work with the government to develop welfare initiatives after economic reforms left people struggling with the cost of living, the country’s top business leaders told Semafor Africa. President Bola Tinubu scrapped a popular fuel subsidy and attempted to unify the exchange rate in his first few days…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC has declared war on drug hawkers nationwide. Director General of NAFDC, Prof Christianah Adeyeye who made the declaration during a sensitisation workshop on Dangers of Drug Hawking and Ripening of Fruits with Carbide on Wednesday in Lagos decried the nefarious activities…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Executive secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund has raised an alarm. According to Sonny Echono, about 137 students sponsored abroad by the fund have absconded. Echono made the revelation on Tuesday when he appeared before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc committee investigating the alleged mismanagement of N2.3tn tertiary education tax…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last elections, on Tuesday celebrated his 62nd birthday in Plateau, where he donated food items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in the state. Obi in a post on his official Twitter handle shared photos of his visit to the…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Enugu Zonal Command on Wednesday July 19, 2023, arraigned one Obiorah Anthony Emelife before Justice C.O Ajah of Enugu State High Court, Enugu for alleged Seventy-two Million Naira fraud. The defendant was arrested sometime in 2023 following a petition that he allegedly defrauded one Atansi Obinna…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In just over two weeks, Borno State has experienced four devastating attacks by Boko Haram insurgents that killed at least 36 lives in the state. These attacks, mostly targeted at farmers in their fields, threaten a reversal of the relative peace and food security that the state gradually attained over the years. …
