http://ift.tt/2hTlIoc LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NERANGERS)-Key oil industry associations have begun moves for the removal of the Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources since his loyalty to his boss and the country can no longer be guaranteed. The Unions are: The National Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, the Petroleum Tanker…
http://ift.tt/2iqf25c LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has given the directive that all the 36 state capitals should be connected with rail in the ongoing railway projects. The minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, said on Thursday, October 19, at the meeting with the chairman Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Sen. Shehu Sani. The…
http://ift.tt/2yXroZt LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal, Kebbi Division, has sentenced a former Kebbi State Accountant-General, Mohammed Dakingari, to seventy years in prison for N1.6bn fraud. He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on each of the ten counts preferred against him. The appellate court upturned the judgment of a Kebbi State High Court…
http://ift.tt/2gr8ijh on LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet-to-be identified man on Friday afternoon jumped into the Lagos lagoon from the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge. The suicide mission has forced officials of the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Marine Police and other stakeholders to the scene to search for the man. Details…
http://ift.tt/2xbs9cY LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Crisis has broken out in the All Progressives Congress (APC), with 17 governors plotting to dump National Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun. The governors are said to be angry that Oyegun has been running the party with only seven of their colleagues. They may table their grievances at the party’s National Executive Committee…
http://ift.tt/2xaYmB4 LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When passengers on board a LAGBUS vehicle en route to Oshodi, Lagos State, left the Sango end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, little did they know that their journey would be cut short by bandits. At the toll gate area, some metres away from the vehicle’s take-off point, some hoodlums stopped the…
http://ift.tt/2gp3F9j LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Majority shareholder of maritime logistics company, Intels Nigeria Limited, Gabriele Volpi, apologised to the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigeria government over the crisis that led to termination of the company’s pilotage agreement. In an interview with ThisDay newspaper, Mr Volpi who co-founded Intels with former vice president, Atiku Abubakar,…
http://ift.tt/2l3nXu0 LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Republic of China said it had arrested 3,339 fugitives who fled to Nigeria and 89 other countries to escape prosecution for corruption. This was revealed by the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Zhou Pingjian, who stated that 628 of the suspects were former officials from whom N468bn (9.36bn yuan)…
