LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) said it uncovered abandoned power station components worth $34 million. The NDDC’s acting executive director of projects, Cairo Ojougboh, made this known in a statement released on Thursday, December 19, Channels TV reports. Ojougboh said the power station components were…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Task Team on Monday said it has nothing to do with the violence that erupted at the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Lillypond Truck Transit Park at Ijora, Lagos State last Thursday, leading to the death of one person and loss of loss of property. The Task Team urged anyone spreading false information…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pensioners of the Nigerian Ports Authority on Wednesday protested at the NPA Headquarters in Marina, Lagos, against the irregular increment in their pensions since 2008. The pensioners under the aegis of NPA Pensioners’ Welfare Association told the News Agency of Nigeria that the protest became necessary after several attempts to meet the…
LAGOS APRIL TH (NEWSRANGERS)-LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is building a new deep-seaport and considering two additional facilities to ease congestion at Apapa seaports, which currently handle about 80 per cent of all shipping traffic in the country. A new facility is already under construction in the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos through a public-private…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The managing director of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman, has threatened to take legal action against SaharaReporters over the newspaper’s report implicating her in bribe scandal. In a statement she personally signed, the managing director demanded a retraction or show proof that she gave $2million bribe to the national chairman of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice-Chairman, Dry Cargo Unit of Nigeria Association Of Road Transport Owner (NARTO) Lagos State branch, Alhaji A. Abdullahi Mohammed Inuwa has accused both the Nigeria Ports Authority ( NPA) and Nigeria Shippers Council (NSC) for contributing their own quota to the current failure in ports. Inuwa who revealed that the shipping…