LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Chukwuejekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced the trio of Kasumu Ademola, Salau Mikailu, and Ganiyu Ishola to 20 years imprisonment. The three persons were sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty to diverting the shares of a dead client, identified as Mr Joseph Adeyemi, worth N34…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Violence has surged in Nigeria following a brief lull for elections earlier in the year, serving as a cruel reminder of the significant security challenges faced by incoming President Bola Tinubu. Barely a week goes by in Africa’s most populous nation without attacks or kidnappings by criminals known as “bandits” in the…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court Friday dismissed the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party seeking the disqualification of the ticket that produced the president-elect, Bola Tinubu and the vice-president-elect, Kashim Shettima in the 2023 presidential election. The apex court thus affirmed that the duo of the All Progressives Congress were eligible to contest the…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The PTML Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has banned its operatives from using their offices as homes. Customs Area Controller of the command, Compt. Ali Mahmud Ibrahim expressed displeasure over intelligence reports that some officers and non-officers of the service turned their offices into bedrooms and kitchens after closing hours….
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed HRH Eze Victor Ijioma, the Traditional Ruler of Orsu Obodo in Oguta local government area of Imo state. Our correspondent gathered that the traditional ruler was murdered alongside the Traditional Prime Minister of Isama of Mgbele community in the council. It was further gathered that the two traditional leaders…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abuja-based Nigerian rapper and Hip Hop singer, Tochukwu Gbubemi Ojogwu, popularly known as Odumodublvck, has reportedly declined a request to perform at the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. Naija News reports that the self-acclaimed roadman made this known in a post via Twitter on Thursday, May 25, 2023, ahead of the inauguration. President Muhammadu Buhari today (Thursday)…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s incoming President Bola Tinubu will inherit anaemic economic growth, record debt and shrinking oil output, but before he can start fixing these pressing problems he will need to secure public support for painful decisions. Life is tough for citizens of Africa’s biggest economy, and a tangle of protectionist economic policies and…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly five years after he was arrested at a South African airport, Mozambique’s former finance minister has lost a last-ditch court appeal and faces extradition to the United States over a $2 billion corruption scandal related to loans to Mozambican state-owned companies. U.S. prosecutors allege that Manuel Chang, Mozambique’s finance minister from…
