LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Adam Nuru, Managing Director of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), says the bank made an error of posting N573 million into the church account of Emmanuel Omale. The Presidential Committee on Audit of Recovered Assets (PCARA) had accused Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), of…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has come under heavy criticism for saying that internet fraudsters, popularly called Yahoo Boys have become role models in Nigeria. The former minister, while delivering a lecture at a virtual event organised by the Ijaw National Development Group, cautioned that the new trend ‘Yahoo Yahoo’…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A musician in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano has been sentenced to death by hanging for blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad. An upper Sharia court in the Hausawa Filin Hockey area of the state said Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22, was guilty of committing blasphemy for a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March….
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, has lamented that internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo Boys, have become role models in Nigerian society. The former said this at the weekend while delivering a lecture at a virtual event organised by the Ijaw National Development Group. The former minister said,…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-United States Court has dismissed sex and human trafficking allegation made against a Nigerian from Delta State and former former Group General Manager of National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Mr. Dafe Sejebor. The charges were dismissed on February 19, 2020. Mr. Mark W. Bennett, counsel to Dafe Sejebor disclosed and confirmed…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State and Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has revealed that he was touched to pay off an accumulated pension and gratuity debt of N35 billion, which he inherited from the previous administration, because of the sufferings of…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Assailants on Sunday, stormed the residence of Mr Azubuike Ekwegbalu, the Senior Special Assistant (security) to Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra, leaving him dead after allegedly stabbing him with a kitchen knife. The incident occurred early hours of Sunday at his residence at the Commissioners’ Quarters, Awka, a high brow area for government officials. An…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Worried over the spate of official Government documents leakages, the Federal Government is seriously considering regulating or placing an outright ban on all civil servants from social media participation. Describing civil servants’ participation on social media as “improper,” the Government in a memo said, social media participation should instead be supportive of…
