LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has endorsed his ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar for the 2019 presidential election. Obasanjo spoke on Thursday when Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and some leaders of the Party visited him at his Abeokuta home. He said he believed Atiku has ‘re-discovered and re-positioned himself’…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Detectives attached to the Anti-vice, Zone Police Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos State, have arrested the Managing Director of EPP books Limited, Mr. Chizozim Aguguo, a business mogul, for allegedly almost causing Tonad Publishers Limited to close shop. Tonad Publishers Limited was said to have laid-off most of its workers, after a copyright infringement…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has challenged the committal order of a High Court of Rivers State on Tuesday sentencing the company’s Managing Director and two other senior officers of the company to prison for three months for disobeying a court order. “We do not accept that SPDC has disobeyed any…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman Presidential Advisory Committee (PACAC) on Tuesday has warned Nigerians against attaching importance to former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the forthcoming 2019 election. Sagan said as far as the 2019 presidential election was concerned, Obasanjo’s opinion was not relevant. Speaking with Independent, Sagay said Obasanjo doesn’t have any…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has set up a special team to interrogate Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State next week, The PUNCH can confirm. Fayose, who has been governor since October 16, 2014, will lose his immunity at exactly 11.59pm on October 15, 2018, thereby giving the EFCC the constitutional…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The managing director of Shell Petroleum Development Company, Mr Osagie Okunbor, and two others have been sentenced to three months in prison with hard labour by a Port Harcourt High Court. Others also sentenced to three months in prison with hard labour in contempt proceedings were Shell’s secretary and head of legal,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday ordered that the former governor of Edo state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole be served with an application brought before the court by an anti-corruption crusader, Bishop Osadolor Ochei seeking an order of mandamus compelling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A number of legislative aides, on Tuesday trooped out en masses to protest the non-payment of their allowances of N5.8bn, disrupting the activities of the National Assembly which was billed to resume Today. The protesters were seen at the lobby of the NASS complex dressed in black, expressing their grievances to the…