LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alpa Beta, a consultancy owned by Bola Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State and National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is at the centre of a N100billion fraud, tax evasion and money laundering petition written by Mr. Dapo Apara, its Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer. According to Apara’s petition to the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Association of Nigerian Students has banned the conferment of awards on individuals and organizations by all student union bodies in the country. The NANS President, Bamidele Danielson, who announced this during the inauguration of the new executive of the association in Abuja on Thursday, explained that such award conferments on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has deducted a total of N5.61 billion from the accounts of three banks as fines it imposed on them last week for alleged illegal repatriation of funds for telecoms giant, MTN. According to a report by Reuters, the three banks include Standard Chartered which was debited N2.47…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Shekarau announced his decision to join the ruling party after a closed-door meeting with the national chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole. The closed-door meeting was held on Friday in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government, through the Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), has urged residents to take precautions, following a purported earth tremor, which occurred in some parts of the city on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. The tremor reportedly occurred in Mpape and Maitama Districts of the FCT, Abuja. The incident…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH(NEWSRANGERS)-Pastor of a new generation church, Divine Prophetic Ministry has been shot by unknown gunmen close to his church, along Anambra Secretariat Road in Awka. The Pastor, David Elijah Chidiebere, who is in his early 30s, is the General Overseer of the church which relocated to the Secretariat Road permanent site of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Committee (NEC) and top party stalwarts are plotting the removal of the chairman of the APC Mr. Adams Oshiomhole over his “destructive tendencies”. Oshiomhole was elected as APC chairman on June 24 at the party convention in Abuja, replacing his kinsman Chief…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday began the disbursement of start-up capital for 39,000 petty traders in the Federal Capital Territory. The disbursement is part of the current administration’s drive to empower over two million petty traders across the country through a commercial loan scheme tagged “Trader moni.” The interest-free loan…