LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a former Executive Director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba, to seven years in prison for laundering the sum of N1.5 billion. Justice Ibrahim Buba handed down the sentence on Wednesday, after convicting the former NIMASA […]
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LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended no fewer than 11 senior officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, as the probe of the shenanigans under the stewardship of disgraced Ibrahim Magu deepened. Authoritative Presidency sources told P.M.News on Tuesday night that EFCC executive Secretary Olanipekun Olukoyede was among the senior officials suspended. […]
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LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A nurse, Ayomide Alao, who went missing in the Bariga area of Lagos State, has been found allegedly relaxing in a hotel in the Ipetumodu-Okoku area of Osun State. While in the hotel, it was learnt that Ayomide allegedly refused to respond to calls and messages requesting to know her whereabouts. PUNCH […]
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LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Port Harcourt based group, Port Harcourt Elites For Justice has alleged that the management of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was practising double standard on promotion examinations for staff. A spokesman of the group who identified himself as Sir Clifford Douglas made the allegation in an interaction with our correspondent at […]
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LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, the first-ever female combat helicopter pilot in Nigeria, is dead. She was barely 23 years of age. Arotile died as a result of head injuries sustained from a road traffic accident at Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base Kaduna. Her death came barely a year after she was winged […]
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LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have charged one Moses Anyaoha with nine counts bordering on criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide and stealing. The Police alleged that Anyaoha and one Tony Mba, now at large, between 2010 and January 2011 conspired to commit offence of culpable homicide contrary to Section 96 of the Penal Code. Prosecution Counsel, […]
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LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has cautioned the Federal Government against the recent directive by the Federal Government through the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, that schools in the country would no longer re-open as earlier planned and that the West […]
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LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Trump administration abruptly reversed course Tuesday, telling a federal judge in Boston that it was dropping a new policy that would have required international students to leave the U.S. if their colleges or universities were offering only online classes. The announcement was made without explanation in a hearing with U.S. District […]
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than half a million people have died from COVID-19 globally. It is a major tragedy, but perhaps not on the scale some initially feared. And there are finally signs that the pandemic is shuddering in places, as if its engine is running out of fuel. This has encouraged many governments to […]
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. health officials and drugmakers expect to start producing potential coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of the summer, a senior administration official said Monday. The U.S. is aiming to deliver 300 million doses of a vaccine for Covid-19 by early 2021. The manufacturing process is already underway even though they aren’t […]
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