LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have been told to prepare for more pain this fiscal year, as the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning Minister Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, and the Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Mr. Ben Akubueze, presented the breakdown for the 2021 N13.588 trillion Federal Government’s Budget. The top Presidency officers,…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Edo lawmaker elect, Dr. Washington Osifo, hasfiled a suit at the Federal High Court in Benin, challenging the appointment of a sole administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), urging the court to declare the appointment “illegal, unconstitutional, null and void” as it negates the provision of the Act setting up…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has declared that it would review the January 18 earlier date fixed for resumption of schools across the country. Punch reports that the government on Monday, January 11, attributed the decision to the second wave of COVID-19 currently ravaging the country. The minister of education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, has directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to inform all Electricity Distribution Companies(DISCOs) to revert to tariffs that were applicable in Dec. 2020. Aaron Artimas, Senior Special Adviser, Media and Communications to the Minister of Power, made this known in a statement in Abuja on…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government will need about N2.44tn for the vaccination of 164.8 million Nigerians, who will not have access to free vaccines the country is expecting from the international community. Currently, coronavirus vaccines available globally include those discovered by Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Oxford and Novavax. Recall that the Executive Director of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has imposed new restrictions amid the rising cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in various parts of the country. Mr Boss Mustapha, who is the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, announced this on Monday at the briefing of the task force in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has extended the deadline for the registration of National Identification Number (NIN) by telecommunication service subscribers. The ministry of communications and digital economy broke the news in a statement on Monday. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had given telecommunications companies a two-week ultimatum to block SIM cards not registered…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to remove the N20 USSD fee imposed on subscribers for National Identification Number (NIN) retrieval requests. This directive came following the outrage across the country from subscribers who…