Abuja Court Jails Mother, Sister Of Suspected Terrorist Kingpin To 40 Years Imprisonment
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Hauwa Yilwa of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced two…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Hauwa Yilwa of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced two women arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) for their involvement in terrorism to 40 years in prison. The convicted women — identified as one Safiya Salihu and one Halima Abdullahi — are said to be the mother and…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to probe activist-lawyer Deji Adeyanju and social media personality Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, over allegations relating to terror financing, illicit funding networks and other potential national security concerns. Thia followed a petition submitted by legal practitioner Blessing Agbomhere, who requested…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF) has approved the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Scheme of Service. Describing the approval as a significant milestone and the first of its kind for the Commission, NIMC in a statement signed by its Head, Corporate Communications, Kayode…
By Ademola Mobi LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Sometime in 2009, ‘Mr’(as he preferred to be addressed) Peter Obi, Governor Of Anambra State at the time, visited Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and myself at Dallas, Texas. He came to deliver a get well message from the President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan and was billed to attend a…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The majority of Nigerian filling stations have yet to reduce premium motor spirit pump prices despite the significant drop in crude oil prices and Dangote Refinery’s gantry petrol price. A market survey on Thursday morning showed that petrol prices stood between N1317 and N1336 per liter across filling stations in Abuja. This is the…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family, friends and colleagues are mourning the sudden death of 26-year-old lawyer Sarah Araba Tettey, who reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest while celebrating Ghana’s victory over Panama on Wednesday. Tettey, an alumna of the Faculty of Law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), was called to the…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man in northern Nigeria has been sentenced to two weeks in prison after neighbours complained that he was storing bags of human faeces outside his home, which they said made life unbearable. Mohammed Saidu was taken to court in the city of Kano after residents reported the foul smell to environmental…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWRANGERS)-Equatorial Guinea’s government has resigned after failing to meet its objectives, Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said. Obiang, who is also the son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, said the prime minister had presented the resignation of all members of the government because it had barely reached 10% of its targets….