LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Popular US-based actor, Femi Ogedengbe has taken to his official social media handle to give his 2 cents about people planning to vote for their oppressors and still praying for God to deliver them from poverty and other afflictions that have negatively affected the country. Femi said after serving for 8 years,…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-City Power, an electricity distribution company in South Africa, has cut off power supply to the Nigerian consulate in Johannesburg over “unpaid bills”. On Wednesday, the DisCo said the consulate was owing at least R600,000 (about $35,000). “We are on our 2nd day of revenue collection drive around Alexandra Service Delivery Centre(SDC)….
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered that two State Shari’a Court judges, a cashier and 16 other financial registrars be remanded n a correction centre for alleged N580.2 million theft. The police charged Bashir Kurawa, Saadatu Umar, Tijjani Abdullahi, Maryam Jibrin-Garba, Shamsu Sani and Hussaina Imam with five counts of…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has quietly approved ₦185 as the new petrol pump price per litre. A source told The Guardian that the approved pump price was communicated to major marketers in a memo early Thursday. Our correspondent gathered that fuel stations in Lagos have started adjusting their pump price to the approved…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As earlier reported by LEADERSHIP, Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, was conspicuously absent on Thursday afternoon at the historic Mapo Hall venue of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign rally in Ibadan, the State capital. However, major PDP stakeholders in the State attended the rally with key supporters of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With election fever ramping up in Nigeria, leading members of each party are drumming up support for their candidates. Roads and housing minister Babatunde Fashola, who supports the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), recently claimed that its presidential candidate Bola Tinubu issued Nigeria’s first state bond for infrastructure and development when he…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ruslan Obiang Nsue, one of the sons of Equatorial Guinea’s President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has been arrested on suspicion of selling a plane owned by the national airline. Ruslan Obiang was arrested on Tuesday and placed under house arrest as authorities opened an inquiry into the sale of the plane after…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo Government has confirmed the arrest of two village chiefs in connection with the Jan. 7 train attack which resulted in the kidnap of 20 passengers at the Igueben train station. Chris Nehikhare, state’s Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, said this when he briefed newsmen shortly after the state executive council…