LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo lied over claims that the Jonathan administration embezzled some funds a few weeks to the 2015 general elections. Mr. Osinbajo had on Monday said N100 billion and a separate $289 million were embezzled by officials of the Goodluck Jonathan administration,…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that negotiation should be carried out for $15 billion loan for the completion of work on the Port Harcourt – Maiduguri rail project. The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Ameachi, made this known when he briefed State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris has decorated Commissioner of Police (CP) Danjuma Ibrahim with his new rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), after being acquitted over alleged killing of five traders and a woman in 2005 at Apo, Abuja. He was suspended from duty and charged on…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen on Sunday kidnapped an aged woman at Ubakala, Umuahia south local government area of Abia state, Daily Pot Report The victim’s name could be ascertained as of the time of the incident, but sources hinted that she is the mother of a communication giant and Chief Executive Officer of SLOT,…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris, on Monday ordered an immediate withdrawal of police officers attached to some political office holders and very important personalities, VIPs, in the country, citing the security challenges facing Nigeria as reason. Recall that the IGP had stated that the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, has perfected…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four thousand members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who were reported to have decamped from the party on Sunday, March 18, failed to appear at a rally scheduled by the governor of Jigawa state, Muhammad Baduru. The governor was present at Birnin Kudu local government area of the state to received…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A mother of two unemployed graduates, whose name was given as Uzoaku, on Saturday hanged herself in Mgbakwu, in the Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State. It was gathered that the 66-year-old woman had complained to some people that she was angry that her two children, who graduated some years…
LAGOS MARH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The families of a candidate of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in Awka, Anambra State, John Ezekwe, and a cameraman in Lagos, Victor, have been thrown into mourning after they drowned on Saturday. While Ezekwe drowned in the swimming pool of a hotel on Old INEC Road, Awka South, Victor was…