LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The US Embassy in Nigeria has increased non-immigrant visa processing fees for various visa categories The new visa fees will start on June 17, 2023, and the embassy stresses that the rates reflect the actual cost of the services provided. In recent months, there has been an increase in the number of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr Titus Oyedele, head of clinical services and training at Babcock University Teaching Hospital (BUTH) in Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, has expressed worry over the issue of brain drain in Nigeria. He mentioned that approximately 50 doctors and 90 nurses had departed the institution in search of better chances abroad. Oyedele revealed the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Peter Obi, candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, has described continued migration of Nigerian trained medical doctors to other countries as unacceptable. Obi said this at the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Anambra Chapter’s Physicians’ Week and Scientific Conference held in Nnewi on Tuesday. The…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty years ago, in July 1992, Joseph Ugochukwu from Imo State, who does not want to be identified by his real name, was denied visa by the United States Embassy. Back then No. 2, Eleke Crescent, Victoria Island, was the important diplomatic address in Nigeria and it received a daily stream of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 general election, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has expressed confidence in winning the presidential poll. The ex-governor of Lagos State spoke during the Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit in Kaduna State on Saturday. He also lauded the Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian medical doctors and their counterparts from developing countries working in the United Kingdom have lamented exploitation in the course of their work. This was revealed by BBC on Tuesday adding that an investigation proved that Nigerian doctors recruited by a British healthcare company are expected to work in private hospitals under…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 200 Nigerian-trained doctors were licensed by the government of the United Kingdom in just one month, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. Checks on the website of the General Medical Council, the body which licenses and maintains the official register of medical practitioners in the UK, showed that the GMC licensed…