LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Confusion reigned at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, when thousands of people returning home from Christmas could not quickly be attended to at Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, section. Fracas almost ensued when some security agents were helping some passengers to beat the long queue as other passengers began to protest…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) on Sunday issued an internal memo announcing the train fare increment earlier published exclusively by Tribune Online. This is even as some passengers have lamented over the manner of increment, wondering why NRC will jack up train fares without prior notice to train users. According to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Immigration Service on Friday dismissed eight of its personnel from the service for various offences relating to indiscipline, employment racketeering and other forms of corrupt practices. Also, 18 officers were sanctioned for the same reason. Last month, the Comptroller-General, NIS, Isah Idris, ordered the investigation into a case of extortion…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Travellers on a Lagos-bound train were stranded on Monday after the locomotive developed a fault in the middle of a forest. A Twitter user, Yinka Seth @inkaseth, who tweeted the incident, claimed that some steel parts of the rail tracks were removed by some hoodlums. The tweet read, “My first tweet went…