LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Senate on Tuesday voted to reject changes to the constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in national elections, while a provision to allocate special seats for women to increase their political representation failed to pass. Voters in Africa’s most populous nation will go to the polls to elect a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The South East Amalgamated Markets Traders Association (SEAMATA) has rejected the recent astronomical and indiscriminate increment of import duty on cargoes charged by Nigerian Customs Service. African Examiner reports that the body is the umbrella union of traders in all the markets in the South-East Geo-political Zone of Nigeria and traders of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-SENATORS from the South-South geo-political zone have kicked against moves by the Senate to include Lagos, Ogun, Bauchi and others that have attained the status of oil producing states into Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The senators raised the objection, yesterday, during the consideration of a Bill for an Act to amend…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some members of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) founded by late Prophet Temitope Joshua have rejected emergence of his wife, Evelyn, as the new leader of the church. Late Prophet TB Joshua died suddenly without naming a successor but his wife was left week named as the leader. But those…