LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In the lyrics of one of the songs of the late reggae music legend lucky Dube, “it takes a million people to build up a good reputation, but it takes one stupid fool to destroy everything they’ve done.” Luck ran out of a self acclaimed business man, Onu Oluchuckwu after he was…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Thursday Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), has fled to the United States (U.S). EFCC’s prosecuting counsel, Mohammed Abubakar, said this at the Federal High Court in Abuja where the younger Maina is…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA Resource Centre) has dragged to court the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, over the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations, 2019. HEDA said certain sections contradict the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), the Immigration Act and the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Edo on Wednesday said that it had arrested five kidnap suspects in Ahon community bushes on the Benin/Lagos Road. CP Philip Ogbadu, Commissioner of Police in the state, made this known when he paid a courtesy visit to Mr George Edem, Commandant, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have reportedly snatched N20m from accountants attached to Office of the Cabinet Department of the Ekiti Governor’s office on Wednesday during an attack. The accountants were said to have been waylaid while returning from a new generation bank along Government Secretariat road, Ado- Ekiti where they had gone to withdraw the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) by three months. Mr Adamu was due to retire from the police last Monday having spent the maximum 35 years in service. The extension to his tenure was announced on Thursday by the Minister of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International Criminal Court on Thursday convicted a one-time child soldier who morphed into a brutal commander in the notorious Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army of dozens of war crimes and crimes against humanity, ranging from multiple murders to forced marriages. Dominic Ongwen, who was abducted by the shadowy militia…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leader of the banditry group operating along Shinkafi/Sokoto Road, Zamfara State, Kachalla Turji, has said members of the group are not afraid of death. Turji also accused the Nigerian government and Zamfara State government of reneging on a series of promises made to them. He disclosed this during a peace meeting with…
