http://ift.tt/2wATLYy Baru and Ibe-Kachikwu LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANFERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ?has alleged that the $25 billion contract scam at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) ?is to fund President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term ambition in 2019. It would recalled that the minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, in a leaked…
http://ift.tt/2y3bUS8 LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of protesters on Thursday, October 5, stormed the British High Commission in Abuja demanding that the United Kingdom government produce the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The protesters led by Venantius Torkuma, the executive director of Advocates of Social Justice for All (ASJA) said, Kanu…
http://ift.tt/2ystqAD Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-To assuage the suffering of pensioners in the state and clear up a backlog of arrears that accrued over two decades, the Edo State Government has released about N430 million through the Joint Account and Allocation Committee (JAAC) in the last two months. In a…
http://ift.tt/2ks0WR9 Buhari LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Aishah Ahmad as the new deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), subject to confirmation by the Senate. Ahmad is to replace a former deputy governor, who retired early this year. In a letter to the Senate, the president urged…
http://ift.tt/2koRWMN Dame Patence Jonathan LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday fixed Nov. 16 to hear the N2 billion Fundamental Rights suit brought against the EFCC by Mrs Patience Jonathan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the wife of the former president Goodluck Jonathan had…
http://ift.tt/2xiIMHE Prof Otasowie LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amidst increasing concerns over the level insecurity in the Edo State, a senior staff of the University of Benin, Edo State, Prof. Paul Otasowie, has been killed by gunmen. It was learnt Otasowie was shot dead by the armed men in front of his residence on Ekehuan road in…
http://ift.tt/2fOKPbs LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 25-year-old male hairdresser, was on Wednesday, sentenced to death an Ikeja High Court, in Lagos for stealing a laptop and a mobile phone at gunpoint. Justice Kudirat Jose found the convict Izuma Ajaere guilty as charged and ordered that he should be hung by the neck.u until he dies. Jose…
http://ift.tt/2wzx9HQ LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigation officer, Tosin Owobo, on Tuesday testified that three former Air Chiefs allegedly diverted N21billion to their personal accounts from the Nigeria Air Force (NAF). He said they diverted the sum through several companies which they registered personally incorporated, none of which had any…