LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 102 top government officials are at the risk of losing their jobs following the decision of the Bola Tinubu-led federal government to implement the Orasanye Committee report. Politics Nigeria earlier reported that the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed the federal government’s decision to State House…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Over 500 Nigerians have lost their jobs and are stranded four months after the United Arab Emirates stopped granting or renewing Direct Employment Visa for Nigerians in the Western Asian country. It was gathered that while many of the affected persons had returned to Nigeria, hundreds of them are still in UAE…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate berated the Minister of State for Employment, Labour and Productivity, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN), again on Wednesday over the recruitment of 774,000 Nigerians for the Federal Government’s Special Public Works programme. Spokesperson for the Senate, Dr Ajibola Basiru, in an interview with The PUNCH, described as false, a claim by…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 3.8 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, meaning the coronavirus crisis has sidelined more than 30 million workers, new federal data show. That means 18.6 percent of the nation’s workforce — more people than the entire state of Texas — tried to collect unemployment checks in the…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mustapha Abdullahi spent his childhood in constant hunger “roaming the streets for food” in his village in northern Nigeria, unsure when his next meal would arrive. Like many living in areas where opportunities are scarce, he knew he had to move. When he turned 12 he travelled south to Nigeria’s commercial megacity,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of South African well known activist, Julius Malema, leader of Economic Freedom Fighters, EFF, assured everyone that South Africa is for everybody, has said there are no jobs in the country and so no one should be harassed. He said this while condemning the renewed spate of xenophobic attack on foreigners…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Bureau of Statistics has released eye-popping figures about the woes of the Nigerian economy. The body amidst pressures from the FG, stated that 20.9 millions Nigerians have lost their jobs under the three and half years of President Buhari’s administration. This did not come as a surprise to the Nigerian…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal Minister Of Agriculture and Rural development, Audu Ogbeh has affirmed that National Egg Production Scheme (NEPRO) if fully implemented would provide one million jobs nationwide through egg production, processing and marketing. According to the Minister, the target of the scheme is to achieve a daily production of 50million eggs over the…