LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than two policemen have been killed after gunmen attacked a police station at Gegu village on Lokoja–Abuja road. The attack which occurred on Tuesday, left one of the suspects in the cell injured. Confirming the incident was spokesman of the Kogi State Police Command, William Aya. “It is true that…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigeria Police Force has said it would arraign Senator Dino Melaye and the four suspects rearrested for alleged conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms at the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi on May 10. The suspects are: Kabiru Seidu, 31, alias Osama, Nuhu Salisu, 25, alias small, Musa…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-– It has been revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari will be returning to the United Kingdom but this time around for his annual vacation. According to a presidential source Buhari’s intention is to leave on Monday in order to have enough rest ahead of the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, (CHOGM)…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Ogun state have arrested one Okwudili Okoro for allegedly attacking his elder brother and his wife and hacking them to death with machete. Okwudili, said to be an apprentice under his late brother, Azuibike Okoro, in company of another person, had stormed the Ijako, Sango Ota residence of the…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Task force) operatives have caught a suspected traffic robber, Oluwole Kayode, 27, who pretends to sell soft drinks and pure water to motorists on Oshodi Bridge. Its Chairman, Olayinka Egbeyemi, a Superintendent (SP), in a statement, said the suspect was apprehended by his…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been summoned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to explain how about $250 million of the $500 million recovered from the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, was withdrawn. The Nation reports that the letter summoning Okonjo-Iweala…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria scored 42 out of 100 points and ranks 55 among 89 assessments in the 2017 Resource Governance Index (RGI), while Ghana’s oil and gas sector scored a satisfactory 67 of 100 points, making it the best performer in sub-Sahran Africa. Ghana has a favorable enabling environment and also performs well in…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian politicians have “budgeted, squandered and siphoned over $302 billion or N66.7trillion using fraudulent or dishonest party politics and promotion of ethno-religious divisions and sentiments” in only 15 years. This is according to the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety). The group in a statement issued on…
