LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The South East Amalgamated Markets Traders Association (SEAMATA) has rejected the recent astronomical and indiscriminate increment of import duty on cargoes charged by Nigerian Customs Service. African Examiner reports that the body is the umbrella union of traders in all the markets in the South-East Geo-political Zone of Nigeria and traders of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to consider options to help the country embrace developmental governance and accountable leadership, while rejecting the planned petroleum price increase. NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, made the call in a statement he issued to newsmen in Abuja, entitled: ”Nigerian workers refused…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has called on the federal government to increase its feeding allowance for corps members, stating that the N650 daily allowance is not sustainable. According to News, Shuaibu Ibrahim, NYSC’s director-general (DG), spoke when he appeared before a house of representatives committee on youth development on Wednesday….
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Association of LPG Marketers (NALPGAM) yesterday warned that the price of cooking gas might rise to N10, 000 per 12.5-kg cylinder before December. NALPGAM, an association of indigenous private companies with operating gas bottling plants, explained that the federal government had refused to issues that led to the rise of…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The bandits who abducted the 156 pupils of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina town of Rafi local government of Niger state last Sunday have increased the ransom for their release to N200m. Initially the bandits demanded for N110m for the release of the victims, mostly girls, with a threat that…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says it will introduce another tariff review for the 11 distribution companies (DisCos) in the country. In a notice posted on its website on Monday, the NERC said the extraordinary tariff review is as a result of changes in inflation, foreign exchange, gas prices, available generation…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thedownstream sector of the petroleum industry was yesterday thrown into confusion as a leaked memo from the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) on an increase of the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit(PMS), popularly called petrol created panic among stakeholders and anger within the populace. The ex-depot price is the price at…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely two days after electricity tariff was increased by about 300 per cent, oil marketers yesterday fixed the pump price for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol, at N162 per litre. The marketers fixed the new price following the Federal government’s announcement that the product would now be sold to marketers…