LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Task force) operatives have caught a suspected traffic robber, Oluwole Kayode, 27, who pretends to sell soft drinks and pure water to motorists on Oshodi Bridge. Its Chairman, Olayinka Egbeyemi, a Superintendent (SP), in a statement, said the suspect was apprehended by his…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been summoned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to explain how about $250 million of the $500 million recovered from the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, was withdrawn. The Nation reports that the letter summoning Okonjo-Iweala…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian politicians have “budgeted, squandered and siphoned over $302 billion or N66.7trillion using fraudulent or dishonest party politics and promotion of ethno-religious divisions and sentiments” in only 15 years. This is according to the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety). The group in a statement issued on…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Imo State Police Command, have been accused of collecting a N10,000 bribe from some journalists. The operatives, led by one Inspector Uche, reportedly collected the money under duress, threatening to frame the journalists if they failed to give the bribe. A photo…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has released a list of those he termed the “real looters”. In a post on Facebook by his spokesman, Reno Omokri, Jonathan said the list, made up of top shots of the All Progressives Congress, is one President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai…
LAGOS APRIL3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- A Boko Haram attack in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed at least 15 people and wounded 83, a military spokesman said on Monday, in the biggest strike since the government said it was in talks with the Islamist militant group. The military said the incident occurred late on Sunday and included…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Eminent Scientist and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Oye Ibidapo-Obe is expected to be the main speaker at the talk shop of a two-day Roundtable on Research Funding for research institutions in Nigeria billed to come up in Abuja on April 17 and 18, 2018. Also expected at…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer were reported tohave died s died on Saturday when a building collapsed in Agege area of Lagos State. Many other persons were said to have been injured in the incident, Eagles Online reports. According to available information, the building is located in Abeje area of Agege. The injured have been…