LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ramon Abbas – known to his 2.5 million Instagram followers as Hushpuppi – is considered by the FBI to be one of the world’s most high-profile fraudsters and faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years in the US after pleading guilty to money laundering. The BBC has used newly available…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has requested the National Assembly to approve for it $4,054,476,863 and €710 million. Buhari is also seeking the nation’s legislature’s approval for grant components of $125 million in the 2018-2020 external rolling borrowing plan. This is contained in a letter addressed to both chambers of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Maritime guru, practitioner and former Murtala Mohammed chapter chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Licensed Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), has called for the privatization of the Nigeria customs service as that is seen as the only solution to bring down the cost of commodities as low as 50 percent. In a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A trader, Sunday Emmanuel, has lost his life after a suspected sex worker, identified as Precious, allegedly slit his stomach with a blade at FESTAC Town in the Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Emmanuel had a makeshift shop on First Avenue, where he sold alcoholic drinks….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Taliban have denied that one of their top leaders has been killed in a shootout with rivals, following rumours about internal splits in the movement nearly a month after its lightning victory over the Western-backed government in Kabul. Sulail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, said Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, former head of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Twitter ban in Nigeria has extended to 100 days, and in that time frame the nation has lost N247.61bn. The Federal Government had on June 4 suspended Twitter after the social media platform deleted a tweet by the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Consequently, telcos on June 5 blocked access to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested one Segun Ogundeji, an ex-convict, for impersonation. The suspect was arrested when he went to the Sango Ota Divisional Headquarters of the police dressed in Army camouflage uniform to solicit for the release of a suspect. According to a statement by the command’s…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed bandits have overrun a Nigerian military base in Zamfara marking a major setback in the campaign to curb violent crimes across the state. The bandits struck a forward operating base in Mutumji, Dansadau, about 80 kilometres south of the capital Gusau, at about 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, The Gazette learnt from military…