LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hired as a so-called tax collector by several influential families, Captain Nwokuha has a fearsome look as he walks around with a piece of wood to enforce his authority at a busy and chaotic road junction in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt. The 34-year-old’s job is to collect “taxes”…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian air passengers are paying more to travel this Christmas, as one-way tickets by most of the airlines cross the N100,000 mark for economy seats. Findings by Nairametrics show that Ibom Air is charging as high as N130,000 on the Lagos-Enugu route for the same class of seats. A cursory look at…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Its been noted that the leadership of Cattle and Foodstuff dealers under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) are currently with officials of Department of State Service. (DSS). Its was noted that the general Secretary of the AUFCDN, Ahmed Alaramma, who disclosed this at a…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The strike action embarked upon by the cattle and foodstuff dealers under the aegis of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) has driven up prices of beef, food and vegetables in the South. AUFCDN, an affiliate of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), commenced a nationwide strike on…