LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Investigations into the killings of the Police Intelligence Response Team operatives by soldiers of 93 Battalion, Takum, Taraba State, on August 6, 2019, have unearthed shocking criminal collaboration between the fleeing kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala, ( aka Wadume), and some senior police officers at the Ibi Police Division. Wadume, who allegedly masterminded…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Monday, a new batch of Nigerian migrants will be deported from Germany to Nigeria. The migrants are expected to leave Frankfurt Airport at 8 am and land in Nigeria’s Murtala Mohammed International Airport around 2 pm and 3 pm. Although the number of migrants has not been ascertained, it was, however,…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The University of Lagos has attracted at least N5 billion from international agencies in the last one year to drive research activities. Prof. Dixon Akinleye, Chairman, Sub Committee (Abstract), made the disclosure at a news conference in Lagos to announce the institution’s 14th Research Conference and Fair. He said that the university…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Super Eagles Coach, Samson Siasia, has denied knowledge of his purported ban by world football governing body, the Federation of International Football Association. News had filtered into Nigeria, on Friday afternoon, of a life ban reportedly imposed on Siasia by FIFA over alleged match-fixing. The embattled football tactician in a statement…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested Nigerian entrepreneur, Obinwanne Okeke of conspiracy to commit fraud running into the sum of 12 million US dollars. This was disclosed on an affidavit deposed to by one Marshall Ward, a special agent employed by the United States Department of Justice. According to…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forensic experts yesterday alleged growing cases of fraud, cybercrime and corruption in the country despite government’s effort to address these problems. At a press conference in Abuja, the Pro tem President of the Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Auditors of Nigeria, Ayishetu Enape, said that the country’s loss to corruption “currently…
By Amos Odeh LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has taken a decision to accommodate all officials of the party who are delegates in the forthcoming primaries in designated hotels in Yenagoa, the state capital for security reasons and easy access. The State Chairman and Secretary of the…
LAGOS AUUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Enugu State Police Command on Friday paraded the suspected killers of two Catholic priests of Enugu Diocese as another escaped assassination by unidentified gunmen on Thursday. Daily Trust recalls that Rev Fr. Paul Offu and Fr. Clement Ugwu were killed on August 1 and March 14, 2019 respectively by armed men….
