LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal high court in Abuja has dismissed charges of fraud brought against Abdullahi Inde Dikko, a former comptroller-general of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Ijeoma Ojukwu, the judge dismissed the charges following an application by the ICPC to withdraw the…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Except President Muhammadu Buhari intervenes, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has perfected plans to have Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State disqualified from contesting as an aspirant in the party’s Edo State governorship primary election scheduled for June 22, 2020, THEWILL can report exclusively. Oshiomhole,…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Maitama, on Tuesday, discharged and acquitted Senator Dino Melaye of the allegation that he made false assassination claim in 2017. Justice Olasumbo Goodluck, in a ruling on a no-case submission filed before the court held that the prosecution counsel failed to establish…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 50 new high-performance Mopar models were stolen from a California Dodge dealership after looters shattered the showroom windows to snatch keys. There’s no denying that 2020 is a year for the history books that nobody in this lifetime could forget even if they tried. While we are still dealing…
By Chubi Eze LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-As the COVID-19 pandemic spread like wildfire around the world, leaders of several nations instituted emergency efforts to repatriate their citizens from foreign shores. For Nigerians in foreign lands, accustomed to the usual incompetence of their officials, there was a sliver of optimism that the Nigerian government would finally…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A police man is reported to have shot dead a 20-year-old commercial motorcyclist after he failed to give N100 bribe at a checkpoint. Residents reported that the victim, Arabo Dauda, was targeted by the police man who shot him from behind at a checkpoint in Maiha town, Adamawa State. The incident generated…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Bauchi State Deputy Governor, Mr. Baba Tela, has tested positive for COVID-19. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had carried out tests on him after exhibiting noticeable symptoms of the disease. According to a statement issued yesterday by the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Bala Mohammed, Mr. Mukhtar Gidado, the deputy…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A boy who went missing has been found dead in the back of a car with his eyes plucked out in Suleja, Niger state. The 9-year-old boy, identified simply as Emma, had been missing for two days, before his body was found in the parked car on Monday morning, June 1. The…
