LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group, Convention on Business Integrity (CBi), has said that its collaborative efforts with Federal Government agencies has resulted in a drastic reduction in the cost of birthing ships in Nigerian ports from $150,000 to $20,000. This was disclosed by a delegation of CBi led by Mr. Olusoji Apampa which paid a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Federal Government has slashed the budget proposed by the Nigeria Police Force by almost N93bn, a situation which the security outfit has warned may frustrate its efforts towards effectively tackling the growing insecurity in the country. The police blamed the reduction largely on the envelope budgeting system of the government and…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government, through the ministry of internal affairs, is set to open up to 1,000 passport processing offices in bank branches and hotels in the country to speed up issuance of the travel document. The development is one of the steps taken by the FG to help reduce hardships and frustrations…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has inaugurated a Presidential Committee for the Development of a Comprehensive Plan of Action for the prevention of flood disasters in the country. It could be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had mandated the Minister, Suleiman Adamu, to fashion out ways of preventing flood disaster in Nigeria within 90…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has asked the Supreme Court to set aside the October 13 Appeal Court judgment which discharged and acquitted the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. The notice of appeal dated October 18, which was signed by the Director, Public Prosecution of the Federation, Mohammed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government Government is considering unbundling the Nigerian Railway Corportion to make its services more efficient and effective. The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, made this disclosure yesterday in Abuja when members of the NRC Governing Board paid him a courtesy visit. According to him, the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lecturers in Nigeria say they will go back to work on Monday after a strike that closed most of the country’s universities for eight months, leaving hundreds of thousands of students angry and frustrated. “That’s eight months wasted out of my life, and what did the strike achieve?” asked one student who…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Thursday reacted to the decision of the Appeal Court to discharge leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. In a statement signed by spokesperson, Dr. Umar Jibril Gwandu, Mr Malami said the appeal court only discharged Kanu…
