LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Safety and Administration (NIMASA), Dr Bashir JamoH has affirmed that the Agency is committed to tackling shipping’s contribution to climate change in line with the Nigeria’s Climate Change policy and IMO Greenhouse Gas strategy. Jamoh who gave the assurance in a statement titled, ‘World Maritime…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Honorable Minister of Transportation Mu’ azu Jaji Sambo says Nigeria is committed to achieving greener shipping in line with the campaign by the International Maritime Organization, IMO, to attain sustainable development in the maritime industry. This is just as Nigeria joins the IMO to commemorate the 2022 World Maritime Day. Sambo…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Tensions ran high on Sunday in southeastern Nigeria as the former separatist region commemorated the more than one million people who died in the Biafra war and famine of the late 1960s. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the leading separatist group, is remembering war victims over two days, with a candlelit…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The management of four major hospitals in Imo and Abia states have hailed the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, for extending his COVID-19 palliatives to their various health institutions. They are Holy Rosary Hospital, Emekuku, Owerri, Imo State; Madonna Catholic Hospital,…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civilrights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has expressed shock that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Muhammad Tanko and the hierarchy of the Supreme Court have not reacted to the contemptuous prophecy by Enugu State based Catholic Priest, Fr. Ejike Mbaka. The group claimed his utterance undermined the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has accused National Assembly members of stealing billions of naira in the name of constituency projects. The ICPC, in a report tagged “Constituency Projects Tracking Group”, tracked 424 projects from 2015-2018 constituency projects between June and August 2019 across the 12 states of…
Thirteen indigenes of Niger Delta States of Bayelsa, Delta, Imo and Rivers have won the 2019 Shell Petroleum Development Company Joint Venture scholarship for a one-year master’s degree in three top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom. The latest awards bring the total number of beneficiaries to 92 since the inception of the scheme in 2010….