LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigeria Customs Service have taken the ongoing foreign exchange reforms to the maritime sector with a 40 per cent increase in the exchange rate used for calculating import duty. The NCS on Saturday raised the exchange rate used for the calculation of import duty from…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In the FESTAC Town area of Lagos State, four men were arraigned on Monday at the Yaba Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding their employer, Think Finance Microfinance, FESTAC Town, of N150 million. Ojimi Ayodeji, the head of risk management for the company, Isaac Eddy, the loan officer, Joseph Setonji, and Juwon Irinyemi…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Muslim faithful prepare for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration, price of rams and basic food commodities in various markets across Nigeria has led to widespread lamentation among Nigerians, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Different market surveys conducted by NAN correspondents in various states of the federation on Sunday, showed that the situation…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some aggrieved personnel of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in Ekiti State have accused the authorities of maltreatment. According to some of them, they have been turned into domestic workers by top officials of the command. They added that they have not been paid their allowances for the 2023 general elections. “The…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unnamed Naval rating has been killed by unknown gunmen around Ajegunle in Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State, a development that has caused tension in the area on Sunday. Some gunmen had opened fire on the Naval rating, who was said to be alone during the attack. The attack came…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lecturer at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Prof. Samuel Oluwalana, has said Nigeria is losing a huge amount of money for its failure to export human faeces, cockroaches, as well as, scorpions to foreign countries. The lecturer noted that the American government gets $3.5 billion every year because it is…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The council chairman of the Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Mr Emmanuel Ajah, has confirmed the arrest of eight kidnappers who killed a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Emmanuel Igwe, along Ishiagu-Mpu road last Sunday. Recall that the suspected kidnappers abducted the wife of the victim and…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board says it turned down 114 Nigerians who applied for refugee protection between January and June, 2023. So far, 12,035 Nigerians have been rejected under the scheme since January 2013, data from the Refugee Protection Division of the IRBC shows. The IRB grants refugee protection in Canada if…
