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…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to a list released by the Federal Government indicting its members as ‘top treasury looters’. The PDP in a press statement by its National Chairman, Uche Secondus, on Friday released a counter list containing Governors, Senators, Ministers and other top All Progressives Congress Chieftains. It…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere; a Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed; and the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, among others, came down heavily on the Federal Government over the release of a looters’ list containing just six names. They described the list as laughable while accusing the government and…