LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Executive Director Operations of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Shehu Ahmed is critically ill and has been away from the office for many months. Ahmed, a retired Deputy Director at the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), was recalled from retirement in March 2020 and appointed as NIMASA Executive…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have begun a “warm up” protest in Kano State over the hike of petrol price from N195 to N617, naira devaluation, school fees increment and other anti-poor policies of the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government. Photographs of the protest obtained by SaharaReporters on Tuesday confirmed that the Joint Action Front (JAF)…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed worry over Federal Government’s promises to dispense wage award to workers since the removal of petrol subsidy in the country. Mr Joe Ajaero, the NLC President said this in a statement while reacting to the President Bola Tinubu’s speech on Tuesday in Abuja. The statement…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Secretary-General of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Ms Fatma Samoura has told Super Falcons of Nigeria that it is because of players like them that FIFA decided to pay prize money directly to players. The FIFA secretary general who addressed the Super Falcons after their 0-0 draw with the…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has barely been in power for two months but his radical reforms are already trying the patience of fellow Nigerians. Surging gasoline prices and rampant inflation following the abolition of fuel subsidies and exchange rate reform are hammering the poor in Africa’s most populous nation, where 40% of its…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu, who is at the helm of regional superpower Nigeria, regards the coup across the border in Niger as a litmus test for democracy in West Africa. Having assumed the chairmanship of regional bloc Ecowas a mere three weeks ago, he was confronted with a major foreign policy challenge when…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The governments of Burkina Faso and Mali have warned against military intervention in their coup-hit neighbour, Niger. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that in a joint statement, the two countries, which are both ruled by military-backed governments, said that any military intervention in Niger would be tantamount to a declaration of war against them….
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from a suicide bombing that targeted an election rally in the border district of Bajaur, Pakistan, has risen to 54 as funerals are held and the government promises to hunt down those behind the attack. Nearly 200 people were wounded in Sunday’s bombing, which the ISIL (ISIS) armed group…
