LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the remand of a Ponzi scheme operator, Bamise Ajetunmobi, who fled the country in 2021, over an alleged N7.5 billion fraud. Justice Chukwuejekwu Aneke made the order on Friday after Bamise was brought before him and arraigned on a 12-count charge made against…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji on Friday rescued 24 abductees in the Kabugu Lamba, Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The troops received an intelligent report on a bandit hideout at Kabugu Lamba forest where kidnapped victims were concentrated, Channels Television was reliably informed. A military source told our correspondent that…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-THE Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says it is exempting dealers of foodstuffs from the Value Added Tax (VAT) Direct, its proposed tax for traders in the informal economy. The tax also excludes artisans from compliance. Many Nigerians have expressed disapproval with the proposed tax, but a senior FIRS official had provided…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Auto mechanics in Umuahia, Abia State, are complaining of low patronage since the removal of fuel subsidy. They are lamenting that some of their customers have refused to collect their vehicles from workshops, even after work had been completed on the cars. Speaking to DAILY POST correspondent in Umuahia, some of the…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police detectives from the Ejigbo Division of the Lagos State Command have uncovered some houses, where a suspected dubious company known as Qnet, held hundreds of innocent Nigerians in captivity after obtaining millions of Naira under the guise of securing a foreign Dollars paying job abroad. P.M.EXPRESS investigation revealed that the houses…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS-Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State on Thursday locked the gate of the Government House against staff who came late. The governor was said to have driven himself to the Government House around 8:30am only to find out that the majority of the staff were not in their various offices. He met…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, will still remain in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) despite being granted bail on Thursday by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. The presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, had granted Kyari, a former head of the Nigeria Police Response Team…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium, yesterday, following the death of three yet –to–be identified persons in a bloody rival cult war in Shomolu-Bariga area of Lagos State. The Guardian gathered that one of those inflicted with bullet injury during the gun duel is now in coma at an undisclosed hospital. Although the cause of…