LAGOS MARCH 28TH NEWSRANGERS)-A 26-year-old domestic help, Daniel Ikade is on the run after he allegedly burgled his boss’s apartment in the Anthony Village area of Lagos State and stole $11,000 (about N4m). Ikade, aka Danzy, was said to have broken into the room where the money was kept when his boss, Ebun Akin, a…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Though the Federal Government pegged the exchange rate at N305.25 to a dollar, the American Consulate in Nigeria exchanged N400 to a dollar in visa application fees for one fiscal year, until yesterday. This was deduced from the visa fees and exchange rate published on the website of the American Consulate:http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ng/ng-niv-visafeeinfo.asp. Consequently,…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edgal made the announcement at a news conference in Lagos to update the public on security plans for the President’s visit. He said that President Buhari would be in Lagos on a two-day official visit on Thursday, March 29 and Friday, March 30. The police commissioner said that President Buhari would be…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disowned President Muhammadu Buhari over his call for the annulment of Chief John Oyegun’s tenure extension as National Chairman of the party. President Buhari, it would be recalled, had advised the ruling APC to nullify the extension of tenure for the National Working Committee (NWC) of…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are indicators that the forthcoming Easter celebration by federal and state civil servants may be bleak following a fresh scam uncovered in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) subsidy payment. A civil rights organisation, Coalition for Probity and Integrity in Civil Service (CPICS), revealed that the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC),…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons lost their lives in a multiple auto crash that occurred along the ever-busy Benin – Ore expressway on Tuesday morning. While a female and two male passengers died in the accidents, 10 other persons sustained serious injuries in the crash involving a bus on the fleet of God is Good…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has declared Friday, March 30 and Monday, April 2, as public holidays to mark the Good Friday and Easter Monday. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Minister of Interior, retired Lt.-Gen Abdulrahman Dambazau, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government. Dambazau enjoined Christian faithful and Nigerians…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday shocked members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of his party when he called for the cancellation of tenure extension for party officials. He disclosed his position to bewildered party members at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the APC in Abuja. Recall that the APC…