LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate President and Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s “purported victory” in the February 23 presidential election would be shortlived. Speaking at the opening session of the PDP National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Wednesday in Abuja, Saraki said the…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja Wednesday ordered the arrest of a top Bayelsa State politician, Hon. Israel Sunny Goli, and two others over their alleged complicity in February 24 abduction of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Kola Okunlola, in Bayelsa State. Justice Abang’s order was sequel to…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s apex revenue collection body, The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) on Wednesday refuted report of planned increment of Value Added Tax (VAT) by 50 per cent to meet up payment of the newly proposed minimum wage. Mr Wahab Gbadamosi who is the Head, Communication and Servicom Department, made this known in…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has asked the Presidential Amnesty Committee to pay former Niger Delta militants on Federal Government scholarships their allowances. While expressing their displeasure with non-payment of the ex-militants, the lawmakers called on the presidential committee to clear the alleged 12-month arrears without further delay. The resolution followed the unanimous…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Osun State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja, is to deliver judgment on the complaints lodged against the outcome of the September 2018 election in the state by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the poll, Senator Ademola Adeleke. The three-man panel had on March 7, 2019, reserved…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Ogun state have arrested a man, Ajibade Olumuyiwa(25), for hacking one Olakitan Balogun, a cobbler to death over suspicion that he was having illicit affairs with his wife. The suspect had returned home late last March 16, met the secret lover in the house with his wife, and in a…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST NEWSRANGERS)-The free train service from Iju in Lagos to Abeokuta which was declared by the Federal Government on February 11 after the section was test-run only operated for two weeks before it was suspended. The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) suspended the service amidst disappointment by passengers. However it was learnt that the…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Senate on Wednesday went into a rowdy session following a motion moved by Sen. Dino Melaye and co-sponsored by seven other lawmakers on alleged militarisation of the 2019 elections. The upper chamber became raucous when the Minority Leader, Sen. Biodun Olujinmi, stood up to calm nerves that became frayed following the…