LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives ad hoc committee on abandoned Projects in the Niger Delta has discovered that 1,723 contractors collected N70.495 billion without mobilising to the site. Recall that at last week’s sitting of the panel, the Auditor General of the Federation had disclosed that N64.4 billion was wasted by the Niger…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Ramatu Ahmed, says no fewer than 10,000 Nigerian girls are forced into prostitution in Burkina Faso. Ahmed disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ouagadougou on Monday She said the victims were mainly underage girls kept in appalling conditions in Ouagadougou…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has dissolved the Economic Management Team (EMT) and in its place constituted an Economic Advisory Council (EAC) that will report directly to him. The following are members of the new council, according to a statement by Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina. 1. Prof. Doyin Salami – Chairman 2. Dr. Mohammed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum has backed the bid of the party to challenge the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which dismissed the petition of the party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, at the Supreme Court. The forum in a statement by its chairman and Governor of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission (PSC) has accused Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu of hijacking the on-going recruitment of constables. The allegation, which betrays the power tussle between the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and its supervising parastatal, is contained in an interview which PSC Commissioner, Austin Braimoh, granted The PUNCH. Braimoh…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s leading energy giant, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), has deployed state-of-the-art high definition cameras for quick detection of and response to crude oil spills from its facilities. The cameras will also help in tracking vandalism of SPDC joint venture assets. SPDC’s General Manager, Igo Weli, disclosed this…
LAGOS SEPTMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Monday, the U.S. Mission in Nigeria and the American Business Council, in partnership with the Government of Nigeria and members of the private sector, launched a two-day Intellectual Property (IP) Symposium on the theme “The Bane of Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals and Piracy.” The symposium brought together a broad range of stakeholders including…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The remains of former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, who died on September 6, arrived in his home village on Monday for a subdued farewell at a dusty sports field after a weekend state funeral with African leaders in the capital. Mugabe, who died aged 95 on a medical trip to Singapore,…
