LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Alhaji Mustapha Jokolo, ex-Aide de Camp (ADC) to President Muhammadu Buhari as Head of State, has disclosed that former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki facilitated the 1983 coup that brought Buhari to power. The deposed Emir of Gwandu made this declaration in an interview with the Sun. He was reacting to…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday disagreed over the proposal by President Muhammadu Buhari that the tenure extension granted to members of the party’s National Working Committee, headed by Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, should be withdrawn. The development led to the meeting of the governors with President…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than two policemen have been killed after gunmen attacked a police station at Gegu village on Lokoja–Abuja road. The attack which occurred on Tuesday, left one of the suspects in the cell injured. Confirming the incident was spokesman of the Kogi State Police Command, William Aya. “It is true that…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigeria Police Force has said it would arraign Senator Dino Melaye and the four suspects rearrested for alleged conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms at the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi on May 10. The suspects are: Kabiru Seidu, 31, alias Osama, Nuhu Salisu, 25, alias small, Musa…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-– It has been revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari will be returning to the United Kingdom but this time around for his annual vacation. According to a presidential source Buhari’s intention is to leave on Monday in order to have enough rest ahead of the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, (CHOGM)…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Ogun state have arrested one Okwudili Okoro for allegedly attacking his elder brother and his wife and hacking them to death with machete. Okwudili, said to be an apprentice under his late brother, Azuibike Okoro, in company of another person, had stormed the Ijako, Sango Ota residence of the…
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…