LAGOS SEPETMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Bobby Moroe, has said not less than seventy suspects have been arrested over the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa. He disclosed this on Tuesday during a Joint briefing by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama in Abuja. Moroe also said the South…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER (NEWSRANGERS) The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has condoled the families of the deceased commuters, as well as those that were variously affected by Monday’s ghastly motor accident along the Umuowelle Bypass, Agulu. The multiple accident was caused by a big lorry that lost control while…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER (NEWSRANGERS) -In less than four months after the swearing-in of the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, presidential campaign posters and billboards of politicians have been found in various places across the nation. In July this year, two large billboards with the picture of Bola Tinubu, an ex-governor of Lagos State and a national chieftain…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS) _The Supreme Court on Monday criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for using a senior state counsel at the Ministry of Justice, Abdullahi Abubakar, for his private election-related trial. The apex court made the observation while delivering a ruling in a suit accusing the president of lying on oath. Three appellants had filed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) A pastor with the Deeper Life Bible Church, Mr. Tunde, has reportedly committed suicide at the Mowe area of Ogun State after being defrauded of N600,000. The incident, which occurred on Friday, threw the whole Atala community into confusion. According to people in the community, Tunde started a Thrift Contribution business two…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – The Supreme Court, on Monday, struck out an appeal seeking the disqualification of President Muhammadu Buhari as a candidate in the last presidential election. The case was anchored on the allegation that Buhari submitted false information regarding his academic qualification and certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission as a candidate…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – Amid denials by officials of the Buhari administration of complicity in the botched gas supply contract that resulted in the recent $8.9billion arbitral award against Nigeria by a UK court, the founder of the company at the centre of the controversy, Michael Quinn, on Saturday named key Nigerian government officials who…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – Ifeanyi Agwuegbo, one of the about 80 American residents of Nigerian origin who were arrested last month by the United States authorities, has been granted bail. Mr Agwuegbo, named as one of the main suspects in a vast business email fraud busted by the F.B.I., appeared in a Texas court on…
