LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has asked the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, to stop misleading Nigerians, adding that senators earned N15m monthly and not N750,000 as claimed by Lawan. Lawan had on Tuesday said there was no such thing as “jumbo pay,” adding that…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, informed the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal, sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, that the figures being bandied by the APC in the Akwa Ibom North-west Senatorial district election, Senator Godswill Akpabio were fake. Akpabio, a petitioner who is challenging the victory of Senator…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II of Benin has raised the alarm that criminal elements, including bandits and herdsmen, are building camps in forests within his kingdom. The Oba, who disclosed this when he met with Enigie (dukes) in his kingdom in Benin yesterday, urged them to…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some victims of flood in Benin, Edo State took refuge in a Christ Apostolic Church of God Mission, a church within the neighbourhood where the disaster happened on June 24. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the victims were residing at Ogbowan Street and Ogbowan Crescent, Ugbor area of the Government…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A middle aged woman, Yemi Samuel, has been arrested by men of the Kwara state police command for arranging her own kidnap. Yemi who was paraded before newsmen at the command’s headsquarters in Akure the state capital yesterday June 26th, explained that she arranged her own kidnap in order to raise money…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 46-year-old woman, Ittu Affiong Theresa Tommy, is now on the run after allegedly collecting aircraft spare parts valued at over $1.4 million from a Russian company under the pretext of supplying same to a government agency. She is also been hunted for receiving over N1 billion from a government agency to…