LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, set aside the Nov. 4, 2022, interim forfeiture order on 40 landed property linked to Sen. Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, said he had found that the application for forfeiture filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several persons including two members of the Benue State House of Assembly were injured when the convoy of the state governor, Samuel Ortom, was involved in a car crash. The accident occurred on Friday morning when the governor and the Peoples Democratic Party supporters were traveling to the Utokon community of Ado…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brazil defender Dani Alves was taken into custody on Friday in Spain over allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman at a Barcelona nightclub in December, police said. The 39-year-old player was summoned to a Barcelona police station where he was “taken into custody” and will now be questioned by a judge,…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kenyan security forces have killed 10 fighters from Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group in eastern Kenya, a government official said on Thursday. They also recovered rocket propelled grenades and improvised explosive devices after fighting the militants on Wednesday in the village of Galmagalla in Garissa county, said Thomas Bett, deputy county commissioner…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria on Friday confirmed the outbreak of a new infection of the nose and throat, otherwise known as Diphtheria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) in a public health advisory issued Friday morning, confirmed that not less than 25 people have reportedly died from the disease in Kano State,…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress and the Social Democratic Party on Thursday knocked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, over his vote-for-appointments comments in Abeokuta. The PUNCH reports that Atiku, during a town hall meeting with stakeholders of the PDP in Ogun State on Wednesday, said members who wish…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some louts said to be workers of the Lagos State Parks and Garages Management have brutalised a commercial bus conductor, Saheed Alimi, in the Sabo area of Ikorodu, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Alimi dropped off passengers at the bus stop on Monday when the gang approached him and demanded N100…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One Sydney Mmeka, a former Regional Manager of Access Bank Plc, who is being prosecuted by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, is planning on fleeing the country amid an alleged N50 million fraud charged against him. This was disclosed during the sitting of the Special Offences…