LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja has granted bail to the lawmaker representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye, in the sum of N10million. Justice Nasiru Ajanah granted Senator Melaye bail in his ruling on the application on Wednesday, based on the lawmaker’s health challenge. The presiding judge described the medical…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, has said Commonwealth assisted Nigeria in recovering around three billion dollars stolen from the treasury. She said the recoveries were done within one year. Scotland, according to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, said this on Tuesday in Abuja when she visited the Minister of…
LAGOS MAY 16TH(NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia said that the Ramadan fasting will begin on Thursday across the globe, the official Saudi news agency SPA reported on Tuesday. The new moon of Ramadan was not spotted on Tuesday evening and Wednesday will mark the last day of the Islamic month of Shaaban, SPA said, citing religious authorities in…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Mojisola Dada,of the Lagos State High Court Ikeja, has ordered for the remand of the Managing Director, Forthright Properties Ltd , Isaac Akintoye and two others in prison custody over alleged N120 millions land scam. Others remanded in prison custody alongside Akintoye, are Samuel Okeke and Ifeanyi Ndigwe, they will remain…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Germany has proposed a new process that will facilitate the smooth repatriation of over 30,000 illegal Nigerian migrants back to the country. Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama said this when he received the Security Adviser to the President of Germany, Dr Jan Hecker, and his team in Abuja. The new proposal,…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)- President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said since its inception in 2015, his administration has succeeded in recovering trillions of naira stolen by those he described as people without conscience. He also admitted that anti-corruption war is not easy to fight because it affects different branches of national lives. The President also…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kogi State High Court has struck out the assassination case involving the chairman, Association of Local Government of Nigeria, Taofiq Isa, instituted by Senator from the state, Dino Melaye. Melaye, had on April 2017 approached the court over alleged assassination attempt on his life by Isa and four others. Others charged…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice President and presidential aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, has described Cross River State Governor, Prof Ben Ayade as an epitome of good governance. Atiku stated this, Monday, at the state executive council chambers, Calabar when he led his team including former governors of Ogun and Imo…