LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina , on Monday , unleashed a torrent of abuse and threats on PUNCH ’s State House Correspondent, Mr John Ameh. Ameh and other journalists were at the Press Gallery of the Presidential Villa , Abuja when Adesina , a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The five-time World Cup champions will lock horns with the Super Eagles during the next Fifa international break Brazil have officially announced the scheduling of a friendly match against the Super Eagles on October 13 in Singapore. Shortly after the country’s 2-2 draw with Ukraine in Dnipro, German tactician Gernot Rohr made…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Obinwanne Okeke, the Nigerian entrepreneur arrested by operatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on the last day of his visit to the United States in August, pleaded not guilty to the two count charge of wire and computer fraud at the commencement of his trial on Monday September 16. The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil prices dropped sharply on Tuesday after a top Saudi Arabian source told Reuters production could be fully back on line within weeks, quicker than initially thought following weekend attacks that cut halved the kingdom’s output. Saturday’s attacks raised the specter of a major supply shock in a market that in recent…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives ad hoc committee on abandoned Projects in the Niger Delta has discovered that 1,723 contractors collected N70.495 billion without mobilising to the site. Recall that at last week’s sitting of the panel, the Auditor General of the Federation had disclosed that N64.4 billion was wasted by the Niger…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Ramatu Ahmed, says no fewer than 10,000 Nigerian girls are forced into prostitution in Burkina Faso. Ahmed disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ouagadougou on Monday She said the victims were mainly underage girls kept in appalling conditions in Ouagadougou…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has dissolved the Economic Management Team (EMT) and in its place constituted an Economic Advisory Council (EAC) that will report directly to him. The following are members of the new council, according to a statement by Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina. 1. Prof. Doyin Salami – Chairman 2. Dr. Mohammed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum has backed the bid of the party to challenge the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which dismissed the petition of the party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, at the Supreme Court. The forum in a statement by its chairman and Governor of…