LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Legendary Marvel Comics co-creator Stan Lee — famous for giving the world beloved superheroes including Spider-Man, Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk — died Monday. He was 95. According to TMZ, Lee suffered a number of illnesses over the last year, including pneumonia. His daughter J.C. told the site, “My father loved…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely a few days after the People Democratic Party decried the incessant posting of police commissioners to Bayelsa state, the state House of Assembly has resolved to resist and would not be intimate-dated by the Inspector General of police who is conniving with members of the ruling party from…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Access Bank is set to add Diamond Bank’s portfolio to its assets in the next few months. According to The Nation, talks on the acquisition are on, according to sources, who said the fusion is set for the first quarter of next year. Both financial institutions have reached an agreement in broad…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWRANGERS)-Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos, on Monday, revoked the bail of a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, following his failure to appear in court for trial as scheduled. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting Kalu together with his former Commissioner for Finance,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday ordered that a 22-year-old Togolese cook, Sunday Anani, be remanded in prison for 30 days, pending advice from the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Anani is facing a charge of murder before Chief Magistrate Mrs O.O Oshin. In her ruling, Oshin,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will this week begin investigation into allegations of financial impropriety leveled against the embattled national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and his Chief of Staff, Abbas Braimoh. Speaking at the weekend, a member of the party’s National Working Committee…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The wife of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential aspirant Hajiya Titi Abubakar has said that her husband is not a thief and would never steal if elected. Mrs Abubakar made the remark when Atiku Women Prayer Group visited in her residence in Abuja. She said Atiku is rich and contented and…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s commercial airlines have the oldest aircraft fleet in Africa, with the age of an aircraft in one of the airlines, being 28.1 years, the age many planes are either due for retirement or decommissioning or may have been retired at least some years earlier. In sharp contrast, major African airlines, such…
