http://ift.tt/2yw5Xu5 LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors of Nigeria’s 36 states have asked the federal government to hand-over federal roads in their domains for prompt rehabilitation. The demand was announced Thursday by the governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, at the end of the monthly meeting of National Economic Council, NEC, which held at the presidential villa…

http://ift.tt/2xO6HOe DMO Direcor, Patience Onuoha LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29H NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria plans to sell as much as $5.5 billion of Eurobonds in the next three months to fund capital projects and replace local-currency debt, according to the Debt Management Office. Yields on existing bonds rose to the highest in two months. The new offers would bring the…

http://ift.tt/2xGsKpz Professor Itse Sagau LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, Prof Itse Sagay SAN on Wednesday fired back at the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, describing them as ‘‘come and chop’’ politicians. The APC had stated that Sagay has no iota of respect for President Muhammadu…

http://ift.tt/2wXg4Hh LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Monday, October 2nd, public holiday to commemorate Nigeria’s 57th Independence Anniversary. Nigeria gained freedom from colonial masters on October 1, 1960. Minister of Interior, Lt Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (Rtd), who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, congratulated Nigerians on the anniversary…

http://ift.tt/2wVPWkY LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Patrick Udensi, 36, who imported drugs worth millions of pounds into the UK has been ordered to hand over £1.2m or have seven years added to his sentence. A judge told Udensi to pay the sum after National Crime Agency (NCA) officers discovered he had valuable assets in Nigeria Udensi is…

http://ift.tt/2xGNA8p LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS) — Four soccer referees in the southern African country of Malawi have been banned for life for match-fixing after they received just $20 between them to fix a game and returned $15 to the team doing the bribing because it still lost. Referee Aziz Nyirenda, assistant referees Limbani Chisambi and…

http://ift.tt/2hz3Wqp LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Cameroon’s army has forcibly deported at least 100,000 Nigerians who have fled an insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram since early 2015 and subjected some to torture, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. The deportations violate international and Cameroonian law and constitute one of the world’s largest…

http://ift.tt/2wWvnzV LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro called on his nation’s military leaders Tuesday to prepare for war against the U.S. days after the Trump administration banned Venezuelan officials from entering the nation. “We have been shamelessly threatened by the most criminal empire that ever existed and we have the obligation to prepare ourselves…