LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reopened fraud cases against thirteen former governors and some former ministers, with the amounts involved running into over N853.8bn. According to Sunday PUNCH, the amount at stake in the high-profile cases involving the former governors and ex-ministers was not less than N772.2bn, with the…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Community Development Committee (CDC) Chairman of Mgboshimini in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers state has been shot and killed by assailants. It was gathered that the CDC Chairman identified as Chief Ndidi Livingstone was killed in front of his church, the Peculiar Faith Ministries in the Rumueme area of…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Luis Suarez re-united with his former Barcelona team-mate Lionel Messi on Saturday and said he hoped his move to Inter Miami would boost his chances of competing in June’s Copa America with Uruguay. The 36-year-old striker took part in his first training session with the Major League Soccer club on Saturday following…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) today recovered 2 dead bodies trapped under an empty long ‘Man-Diesel’ truck by Barracks Bus-stop along Lagos- Badagry Expressway, Lagos The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA Mr. Adebayo Taofiq confirmed that the 2 (two) recovered dead bodies were passengers on…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge in New York has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay nearly $400,000 to cover The New York Times’ legal fees from a now-dismissed lawsuit he brought against the paper, three of its reporters and his niece. Trump sued the New York Times in 2021, accusing the paper of conspiring…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, faces an uncertain future, with indications suggesting that her return to office may be unlikely. Speaking anonymously, sources from the presidency hinted that the alleged scandal surpasses what has been made public, and Edu might not resume her ministerial duties. One…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Truck and Cargo Operators’ Committee (LASTCOC) said no fewer than 19 hoodlums involved in extorting and assaulting truck drivers, along the Lagos-Badagry Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) corridor, were arrested yesterday. This is coming after the attack on truck drivers along the Tin Can Island port corridor…
Dear Mr Peter Obi, My President as I like to address you, I am delighted to see that you are still more than ever committed to your resolve to making Nigeria a better place for the common man. Thank you for your generous donations to victims of insecurity, schools and hospitals. Sir, another part I’d…