Archive for: September, 2019

2023: Oshiomhole, El-Rufai’s Presidential Campaign Posters Surface In Lagos

LAGOS SEPTEMBER (NEWSRANGERS) -In less than four months after the swearing-in of the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, presidential campaign posters and billboards of politicians have been found in various places across the nation. In July this year, two large billboards with the picture of Bola Tinubu, an ex-governor of Lagos State and a national chieftain […]

Supreme Court Faults Buhari For Using Government’s Lawyer For Private Matter

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS) _The Supreme Court on Monday criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for using a senior state counsel at the Ministry of Justice, Abdullahi Abubakar, for his private election-related trial. The apex court made the observation while delivering a ruling in a suit accusing the president of lying on oath. Three appellants had filed […]

Why Deeper Life Pastor Commits Suicide

LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) A pastor with the Deeper Life Bible Church, Mr. Tunde, has reportedly committed suicide at the Mowe area of Ogun State after being defrauded of N600,000. The incident, which occurred on Friday, threw the whole Atala community into confusion. According to people in the community, Tunde started a Thrift Contribution business two […]

Perjury: Supreme Court Dismisses Suit Against Buhari

LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – The Supreme Court, on Monday, struck out an appeal seeking the disqualification of President Muhammadu Buhari as a candidate in the last presidential election. The case was anchored on the allegation that Buhari submitted false information regarding his academic qualification and certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission as a candidate […]

$8.9bn Arbitral Award:P&ID Insists Contract Is Legit, Names Nigerian Officials Involved

LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – Amid denials by officials of the Buhari administration of complicity in the botched gas supply contract that resulted in the recent $8.9billion arbitral award against Nigeria by a UK court, the founder of the company at the centre of the controversy, Michael Quinn, on Saturday named key Nigerian government officials who […]

Internet Fraud: US Court Grants One Of 80 Nigerians FBI Suspects Bail

LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – Ifeanyi Agwuegbo, one of the about 80 American residents of Nigerian origin who were arrested last month by the United States authorities, has been granted bail. Mr Agwuegbo, named as one of the main suspects in a vast business email fraud busted by the F.B.I., appeared in a Texas court on […]

Burkina Faso Military Court Jails Two Generals Over 2015 Coup

LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – A military court in Burkina Faso on Monday convicted and jailed two generals on charges of masterminding a coup in the fragile Sahel state in 2015. General Gilbert Diendere was convicted on charges of murder and harming state security and handed a 20-year prison term, while General Djibrill Bassole, accused of […]

Protesters Shutdown Anglophone Cameroon Over Jailing Of Separatist Leaders

LAGOS SEPTEMBER (NEWSRANGERS)– Cameroon’s restive anglophone regions were in shutdown on Monday as schools and shops closed in protest at the sentencing of charismatic separatist leader Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe to life in prison. Troops were seen patrolling the streets in flashpoint areas and in Bamenda, the capital of the anglophone Northwest Region, residents reported […]

Nigerian Insecurity Requires Urgent Attention, U.N. Special Rapporteur Warns

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)– Nigeria’s multiple security problems have created a crisis that requires urgent attention and could lead to instability in other African countries if it is not addressed, a United Nations rapporteur said on Monday. Security forces in Africa’s most populous country are trying to tackle a decade-long Islamist insurgency in the northeast, […]

6,721 Nigerians Sue NASS Over Plans o Spend N5.5bn To Buy Luxury Cars For Principal Officials

LAGOS SEPEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS No fewer than 6,721 concerned Nigerians as well as socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and Enough is Enough (EiE) have sued the National Assembly to stop it from spending N5.5billion to buy luxury cars for principal officials. The case which has been filed at the Federal High Court in […]

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