LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-A female Judge has been discovered to have opened an account with the name of her maid, amassing a princely sum of N870,321,492.15 million in a period of one year. The discovery was made by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission. The Judge, Margareth Igbeta, is a retired President…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Air Peace Airline would commence the evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa from Sept. 6, following recent attacks on Nigerians in that country. Mr Ferdinand Nwonye, Spokesperson for the Ministry, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Nwonye said that Mr…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godwin Akpabio, has stressed the need for redirecting the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) affairs, saying that the commission has over N2 trillion debt to settle. Akpabio stated this at a meeting with the management team of NDDC on Wednesday in Abuja….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-Two factions of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Wednesday in Abuja engaged each other in a brawl over a plan by the South African High Commission to sponsor some Nigerian students to their country. The President of National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) Bello Shagari who led the group…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has come under fire for attending the ongoing World Economic Forum in South Africa despite federal government’s boycott of the event over xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in the country. Newsmen men reported that Nigeria, alongside African countries like Rwanda, Malawi and DR Congo, boycotted the two-day…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-The police on Wednesday announced additional security measures have been approved for foreign embassies, missions and businesses across Nigeria. The alert followed sporadic violence and looting of businesses by hoodlums across Nigeria. The hoodlums hijacked the widespread outrage being expressed by Nigerians against the xenophobic attacks in South Africa over the past…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-The former first lady of Honduras Rosa Elena Bonilla, wife of ex-president Porfirio Lobo, was sentenced on Wednesday to 58 years in jail on charges of fraud and undue appropriation of funds, a spokesman for the nation’s highest court said. Bonilla, 52, has been in custody since February 2018. Her defense attorney…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Student in Lusaka, Zambia, have burnt down the signpost of South African Embassy in the capital city in response to ongoing xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African migrants in South Africa. This action of the Zambian students comes barely 24 hours after the country withdrew from a friendly football match with…