LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In compliance with the directive of the Federal Government, the Management of the Nigeria Immigration Service has reopened the following four (4) Land Borders namely Seme (South-West), Illela (North-West), Maigatari (North-West and North-East), and Mfum (South-South) in the first phase, since the closure of land borders on 20th August 2019. In a…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWRANGERS)-At Nigeria’s normally manic border post of Seme, Lasisi Fanu says business has all but ground to a halt. He and other customs agents who help clear goods coming into Africa’s biggest economy from its smaller neighbor Benin say the long lines of trucks loaded with rice that used to jam the…
By Victor Enny Ebimimo LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-He lives in a different world. The world where discomfort, pains and sorrow envelope its entirety. The world where his closest pals are unwanted but stubborn houseflies; attracted by the stinking odour that permeates his immediate surroundings. He badly feels it; repulses it; yet he is helpless. Sometimes…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Customs officer with FOU zone A, identified as Musa M. M. was lucky to have escaped death as he was attacked and threatening life injuries inflicted on him by smugglers while on duty at ldiroko axis, the road linking Nigeria with Republic of Benin. The officer whose hand was seriously butchered…