LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Ogun state have arrested one Okwudili Okoro for allegedly attacking his elder brother and his wife and hacking them to death with machete. Okwudili, said to be an apprentice under his late brother, Azuibike Okoro, in company of another person, had stormed the Ijako, Sango Ota residence of the…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Task force) operatives have caught a suspected traffic robber, Oluwole Kayode, 27, who pretends to sell soft drinks and pure water to motorists on Oshodi Bridge. Its Chairman, Olayinka Egbeyemi, a Superintendent (SP), in a statement, said the suspect was apprehended by his…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been summoned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to explain how about $250 million of the $500 million recovered from the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, was withdrawn. The Nation reports that the letter summoning Okonjo-Iweala…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria scored 42 out of 100 points and ranks 55 among 89 assessments in the 2017 Resource Governance Index (RGI), while Ghana’s oil and gas sector scored a satisfactory 67 of 100 points, making it the best performer in sub-Sahran Africa. Ghana has a favorable enabling environment and also performs well in…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian politicians have “budgeted, squandered and siphoned over $302 billion or N66.7trillion using fraudulent or dishonest party politics and promotion of ethno-religious divisions and sentiments” in only 15 years. This is according to the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety). The group in a statement issued on…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Imo State Police Command, have been accused of collecting a N10,000 bribe from some journalists. The operatives, led by one Inspector Uche, reportedly collected the money under duress, threatening to frame the journalists if they failed to give the bribe. A photo…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Los Angeles firefighters have found 13-year-old Jesse Hernandez alive in the sewer system near Griffith Park on Easter Sunday. Hernandez fell into the sewer system Sunday afternoon after jumping on wooden planks in an abandoned maintenance building. A frantic, overnight search for Jesse Hernandez — the 13-year-old boy who plunged into a…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has released a list of those he termed the “real looters”. In a post on Facebook by his spokesman, Reno Omokri, Jonathan said the list, made up of top shots of the All Progressives Congress, is one President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai…