LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NESRANGERS)-An agency tasked with cleaning up Nigeria’s murky oil industry says even though financial accountability has improved the state oil company still hasn’t explained billions of dollars of missing revenue. While energy producers have cooperated and complied with requirements to publish payments, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has struggled with the…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)– The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has arrived the State House, in Abuja for a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. He was received by the Foreign affairs minister Geofrey Onyeama at the forecourt of the Villa. However, Tillerson is to shorten his maiden tour of Africa because of work. “Due…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two students of the St John primary school, Agodo, Ogun State, were today butchered by a man said to be mentally unbalanced, who fled after the incident. According to reports, the killer identified as Lekan Olori Ilu, stormed the school during lunch break and hacked Obituyi Alabi and Kalesanwo Ibrahim to death.the…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International Criminal Court (ICC) has elected Nigeria’s Mr. Chile Eboe-Osuji as the President. The term will run for three years – 2018 to 2021. This was announced in a statement on Sunday by the Head, Public Affairs Unit, Mr. Fadi El Abdallah, who said the three-year term is with immediate effect….
Muhammadu Buhari,Shehu Garba, LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senior Special Assistant to the President, Garba Shehu, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari did not promise an absolute crime-free Nigeria while campaigning for the presidency in 2015. Shehu stated this on Sunday while reacting to criticism triggered by the death of several persons from the herdsmen-farmers crisis…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has blamed the President Muhammadu Buhari administration for the abduction of the 110 Yobe schoolgirls. He said the APC government failed to protect the schoolgirls from danger. On February 19, 2018, the Boko Haram terrorists abducted the girls from their hostel in Dapchi, Yobe State. Atiku said…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-About 53 policemen serving in the Presidential Villa, Abuja have protested over their unpaid Risk Caution Allowances since 2015, when they were posted to the Presidency. This was contained in a petition that the policemen filed to President Muhammadu Buhari and obtained Punch. The petition titled, “President Muhammadu Buhari’s mobile policemen plead…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said the United Kingdom has paid Nigeria the sum of $70m recovered from the Malabu oil controversial deal. The $70m leaves an outstanding of $15m of the $85m which the AGF announced in October last year as…