LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Government has dismissed a report that Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s wife, Prof. Hafsat Ganduje, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), describing it as mere rumours being peddled by mischief-makers. A statement by the Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, expressed regret that the content of…
The Board of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has approved the appointment of four Deputy Comptroller Generals and twelve (12) Assistant Comptroller Generals as well as the promotion of 2,707 senior officers to various ranks with effect from 1st January, 2020. A statement signed by DC Timi Bomodi, Deputy National Public Relations Officer of NCS…
By Fred Chukwuelobe LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) last Sunday released the “Pandora Papers,” an exposé of the financial secrets and offshore dealings of dozens of heads of state, public officials and politicians from 91 countries and territories. Incidentally, Mr. Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra State and Vice-Presidential candidate…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The apps, owned by Facebook, stopped working Monday for millions of users across the U.S., according to outage site Down Detector. Both the mobile and web browser editions of the apps were not working as of 11:42 a.m. ET, the site reported. They were down for more than six hours. “To the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 9 persons have reportedly lost their lives in the Alafin Sabo Idi Odun area of Oyo State on Monday, 4th October, 2021 when a tree fell on them. Focus Naija can report that the victims included market women and their children that were taking cover from a heavy downpour….
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting around 5% on Monday,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A human rights group, Nigerians For Justice (NFJ), has dismissed what it called an “obvious sponsored inquest” against the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi. The group in a statement issued on Monday in Asaba, Delta State capital, said that the PREMIUM TIMES…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, have confirmed their participation at the fifth annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP). The two-day conference with the theme “COVID-19 Pandemic: Recovery and Reconstruction in Nigeria” will take place at the…
