LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has outlined some of the measures being implemented for COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery and Reconstruction in the country, after taking steps to contain the spread of infection, minimize casualties and ensure that clinical services could cope with the projected fatalities. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman,…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has declared Tuesday July 20 and Wednesday July 21, 2021, as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, congratulates all Muslim faithful and Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora on…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family of the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993, Presidential election, late Chief MKO Abiola, on Saturday decried that the Federal Government has not fulfilled promises made to the family. The family’s secretary, Rahaman Abiola, made this known in an interview with journalists when a delegation of the Ogun State government, led…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has declared Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th May, 2021 as Public Holidays to mark this year’s Eidul-Fitr celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, while making the declaration on behalf of the FG on Monday in Abuja, congratulated the Muslim faithful on this occasion and called on all…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will restart issuing new mobile subscriptions from next week, the government said, four months after it halted the process in an attempt to curb growing insecurity in the country. Africa’s most populous nation is battling a surge in violence, including a jihadist insurgency in the northeast, banditry in the northwest and…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government has increased the pump price of petrol to N212.61 a litre, less than two weeks after assuring the nation there would be no hike. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) announced late Thursday that the retail price for a litre of petrol for the month will be between…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Telecommunications companies have been licensed to register people who do not have National Identity Numbers so as to reduce the large crowds at the offices of the National Identity Management Commission , the NIMC has said . Director – General, NIMC, Aliyu Aziz, said some other private and public organisations had also…
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…