LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has sent Oluwole Afolabi, a lawyer of the All Progressives Congress — who inundated Adams Oshiomole with legal battles leading to his removal as party chairman in 2020 — to the U.S. to defend him in the Chicago university records case in which his principal opponent Atiku Abubakar is…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has announced that its 2023 Annual Conference will be held in Abuja,Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory. According to a press statement signed by Danlami Nmodu, mni and Olumide Iyanda, Chairman and Secretary respectively of the 2023 Conference Planning Committee, the event will hold on 4th and…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police Arraign Chartered Accountant, Mother Over Alleged N1.07bn, $975, 102.58 USD Fraud A Chartered Accountant, Omafume Augustina Ayinuola and her mother, Lydia Abosede Ehrievuyere, were today, arraigned before a Lagos Federal High Court, on alleged charges of conspiracy, unlawful conversion of funds, money laundering and fraud of N1, 072, 254 411 billion…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iván Andaur, 56, was piloting the plane from Miami, Florida to Santiago, Chile on Sunday night when he tragically collapse and died leaving the plane pilotless. He collapsed and died in the bathroom of a LATAM 787 Dreamliner he was flying forcing his two co-pilots to make an emergency landing. Iván Andaur,…
LAGOS AUGST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s state-oil firm NNPC said on Wednesday it has secured a $3 billion crude oil repayment loan from Cairo-based Afrexim Bank that will support the government’s reforms to stabilize the exchange rate market. A commitment letter and term sheet was signed on Wednesday for an emergency $3 billion crude oil repayment loan,…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has released the portfolios for the 45 confirmed ministerial nominees with former Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike in charge of the Ministry of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Festus Keyamo manning the Ministry of Aviation. Other ministers are Wale Edun (Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy), Adegboyega Oyetola…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia on Wednesday executed an American citizen who had been convicted of killing his father. The Interior Ministry identified the executed man as Bishoy Sharif Naji Naseef and said he beat and then strangled his Egyptian father to death. It also said Naseef used narcotics, mutilated his father’s body after his…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has until August 23 to present persuasive arguments as to why Chicago State University should not be ordered to release his academic records to Atiku Abubakar, his rival in the February 25 Nigerian presidential election, according to court filings seen by Peoples Gazette. This deadline was imposed on August…