LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has confirmed that the immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, has not been released from detention. In an exclusive chat with our correspondent, the EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, noted that Obiano was transferred to Abuja on Friday morning. Obiano was arrested by the EFCC on…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Telecommunications services providers under the aegis of the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria have said a tariff review for telco services may happen if the rise in the price of diesel is sustained. The Chairman, ALTON, Gbenga Adebayo, disclosed this to our correspondent in an interview. According to him, the…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday arrested the immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The PUNCH learnt that Obiano, who had been on the watch list of the EFCC, was arrested while trying to board a flight to the United States….
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor Peter Obi has stated that politics, for him, is about building a better society, especially for the less privileged because government or governance was all about caring for the people. Obi made this known while addressing journalists on Thursday at the inauguration ceremony of Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, the new…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRAGERS)-American cybercrime expert, Gary Warner, has revealed that the document which claimed that an alleged international Internet fraudster Ramon Abbas, aka, Hushpuppi, laundered $400,000 in prison was fake. Warner, the Director of Research in Computer Forensics at the University of Alabama, noted that the document was an edited version of a June…
LAGOS MARCH 17TH (NEWSRANGERS0-Lagos Lawyer and Human Right Activist, Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo has explained the reasons why he sued the Inspector General of Nigerian Police Force, IGP Usman Baba, joining the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Attorney of Nigeria as co defendants. Malcolm who filed an action via suit No FHC/L/CS/453 /2022 at…
LAGOS MMARCH 17TH (NEWSRAGERS)-Russia warned the United States on Thursday that Moscow had the might to put the world’s pre-eminent superpower in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart. Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012 and is now deputy secretary of Russia’s…
LAGOS MARCH 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Force Commander/Acting Head of Mission for the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), Major General Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr has officially taken over from Ethiopia’s Major General Kefyalew Amde Tessema who has served the mission for close to two years. Major General Sawyerr took over on 15 March and will…