LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday, said the Federal Government will be willing to partner with 21st-century innovative companies like Karmod Nigeria in the implementation of the planned national cooperative housing scheme aimed at providing affordable houses for Nigerians. According to Fashola, the scheme will help tremendously in addressing the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the interim freezing of 45 bank accounts belonging to three companies for alleged smuggling of rice into the country. The companies with the 45 bank accounts in 10 banks are Sun Sam A1 International Limited, Sun Sam International Limited and Sunchrist O. Trans…
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, on Monday, said Nigeria was producing enough food to feed itself and send to neighbouring countries. He described the cry by some Nigerians of hunger in the land as laughable, insisting that there was no hunger in Nigeria. The minister, who spoke at…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Concerned Youth Empowerment Association of Nigeria says rice dealers were taking undue advantage of the closure of Nigerian borders by exploiting ordinary citizens. The President of the Association, Noble Adaelu, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Friday. Adaelu said that the closure has started…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It looks like a fairy tale from a fiction book, or a folklore, told by a talented storyteller. It is the story of an Abuja beggar, Fatima Adamu, and an itinerant labourer, Usher Titus. Ordinarily, it sounds too good to be true, but it is real! It began on a cloudy afternoon…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed men suspected to be kidnappers have struck again in Kuje suburbs of Abuja, killing one person and abducting a Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) officer, along with his two children. The attack happened at Dafara community whose District Head, Makeri Joseph, told newsmen in Kuje on Thursday, October 10th…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met behind closed doors with the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan. The meeting started at the President’s office around 3pm. Jonathan had arrived at the forecourt of the State House around 2.58pm He was coming to the Presidential Villa for the first time under the second term…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has disclosed the federal government’s intention to cancel the operational licences of eight power distribution companies over alleged breached of some provisions of the Electric Power Sector Reform Act in July 2019. The Commission listed the eight power firms to include Abuja, Benin, Enugu and Ikeja…
