LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Naira has suffered another setback as trans-border businessmen and women who hitherto used to transact their businesses in Naira and other currencies have stopped accepting the currency as payment for business transactions. The traders claim that using the Naira to transact their businesses has become counterproductive following its continued depreciation, adding…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kaduna State Police Command says its operatives attached to the Tafa Divisional Headquarters have arrested a suspected kidnapper and recovered N2.3m as share of the ransom collected from victims. This was according to the command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, in a statement in Kaduna on Thursday. He also said…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leaders of the organised labour – the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) – on Friday failed to attend a meeting called by the representatives of the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government in a desperate effort to avert the planned nationwide strike from October 3. According…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The majority of African nations’ leaders have chosen not to attend the upcoming Russia-Africa summit, with 38 out of 55 countries opting not to send their heads of state, The Moscow Times reported on July 25. The summit, intended to showcase Russia’s diplomatic push to increase influence on the continent, is taking…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian street singer, Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable has revealed he rejected N5 million to perform at the ‘Renewed Hope’ concert held in celebration of the forthcoming inauguration of President-elect, Bola Tinubu. Recall the concert was held at the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja on Thursday with a display of performances from top…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sam Omatseye, a renowned Nigerian columnist, has revealed that two governors were also making lists of what they will ask the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to do but they threw the lists away after Tinubu told Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State that he owed him nothing. While speaking during an interview with…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Association Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has rejected the 20 percent reduction in tariff being put forward by the two handling companies in the aviation industry, Skyway Aviation Handling Company SAHCO and Nigerian Aviation Handling Company NAHCO. At a meeting held Tuesday to resolve the issues between the agents and the…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, rejected a request made by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, for a refund for the construction of some federal roads in the state. Tinubu spoke while inaugurating the Rumuokwuta-Rumuola Flyover in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. While noting how the state had to…
