LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has barred banks from laying off workers due to the coronavirus. The apex bank corporate communications director Isaac Okorafor made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday. “In order to help minimize and mitigate the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on families and livelihoods,…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) The League of Maritime Editors and Publishers (LMEP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Rtd Col. Hammed Ali for donating 920,000 bags of contaminated rice to the states in the South West as part of the palliatives over the ravaging…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Director General of Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Dakuku Peterside, has denied reports that he was sacked from office on allegations of corrupt practices. Dakuku who held a closed door meeting with the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbanjo in Abuja, last Friday, said the non- renewal of…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)The presidency has refuted media reports on the alleged sacking of Dakuku Peterside as the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) by President Muhammadu Buhari. The reports had claimed that President Buhari removed Peterside and appointed the Executive Director of Finance and Administration at NIMASA, Bashir Yusuf Jamoh,…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Transport Minister, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, Thursday morning said he was not aware of the appointment of Dr. Bashir Jamoh to replace Dr. Dakuku Peterside as the Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Jamoh is the Executive Director, Finance and Administration in NIMASA. Online news reported that President…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal Capital Territory High Court has granted an order of interim injunction stopping Comrade Adams Oshiomhole from parading himself as the National Chairman of the APC Justice Danlami Senchi who granted the injunction on Wednesday, said that political parties must be bound by their constitution and having been suspended by his…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of Charles Dokubo, coordinator of the presidential amnesty programme. Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday. Adesina said the suspension is in line with the recommendation of a caretaker committee set up to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has branded former Chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, as a liar for saying that she was fired from office because of her probe of some oil racketeers. But the former President said Waziri was sacked based on Nigeria’s interest…