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 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The lawmaker representing Yagba-East/Yagba-West/Mopamuro Federal Constituency of Kogi State, Mr Leke Abejide, has called for the relocation of the Nigerian Ports Authority from the First Gate of the Apapa Port, as part of the measures towards reducing the gridlock in the area. Abejide, at a press conference in Abuja on Monday, noted…
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 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Array of experts in various fields of endeavor to be unveiled in the days ahead are expected to brainstorm on how to tackle Nigeria’s problem in the 7th News Express Anniversary Lecture holding on Thursday, November 14, 2019 at the Main Hall of Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Ikeja, Lagos. News Express Publisher,…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has explained why it terminated the services of Intels Nigeria Limited from the eastern ports of Calabar, Delta and Port Harcourt. The company, co-owned by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, provides comprehensive integrated logistics services for the Nigerian oil and gas industry and has 30 years of experience…
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 NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman, will on Tuesday, November 20, 2018, deliver the News Express 6th Anniversary Lecture, which has as theme, Transparency – Bedrock of Sustainable Development, the organisers said on Sunday. The event will hold at the main hall of Sheraton Hotel & Towers,…