LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-More than 1,000 employees of the US State Department have been laid off as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce its federal workforce. The involuntary staff reductions included 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, according to a notice sent to State Department employees on Friday and obtained…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has reduced the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, to N910 per litre from N935 per litre in Abuja. However, the price adjustment has not yet been implemented in Lagos and other cities across Nigeria. Meanwhile, Dangote Petroleum Refinery initiated the…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has reviewed its ex-depot (gantry) loading cost of petrol to ₦867 per litre. It was gathered that the $20bn refinery informed its marketers and customers of the slash on Thursday. An official at the refinery confirmed the price reduction from ₦880 to ₦867 per litre to Channels…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s oldest aviation company, Aero Contractors, has slashed its airfares to a minimum of N80,000 for local flights during Yuletide season. The airline’s managing director, Ado Sanusi, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos, on Tuesday, described the cut in the price of airfares as ‘pocket friendly’ saying it was aimed to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Nigerian Breweries Plc’s workforce has been reduced by 380 workers as the brewer struggled with the loss induced by surging cost and the naira floating policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria last year. NB joined brewery firms like International Breweries Plc which declared N59.5bn net loss in 2023 and Champions Breweries…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The national leadership of the Labour Party (LP) has carried out a downward review of the cost of the party’s Governorship Nomination Forms to N15million from the initial N25million. LEADERSHIP reports that off-cycle governorship elections will take place in Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo States later this year and governorship aspirants from the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group, Convention on Business Integrity (CBi), has said that its collaborative efforts with Federal Government agencies has resulted in a drastic reduction in the cost of birthing ships in Nigerian ports from $150,000 to $20,000. This was disclosed by a delegation of CBi led by Mr. Olusoji Apampa which paid a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has reduced Emirates Airlines’ flight operations to Abuja airport from daily to once per week. In a letter dated December 9 and addressed to the country manager, Emirates Airlines, Nigeria, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said that the new schedule becomes effective on Sunday, December 12, 2021. The…