LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zamfara State governor Bello Matawalle has claimed that the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, allegedly requesting $2 million bribe from him. Matawalle made the claims in an interview on BBC Hausa. The latest allegation comes amid the growing rift between Matawalle and the EFCC boss. The…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kenneth, a 29-year-old male, was arrested with two severed heads in a bag; the victims were reportedly his mother and father, who he had murdered for monetary ritual purposes. Residents of Kwara State turned out in large numbers to watch as an angry crowd apprehended the child and beat him severely before…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The pressure from New York City’s massive buildings and skyscrapers is making the city more vulnerable to sink lower into the ocean, according to new research. Three University of Rhode Island oceanologists and a researcher from the U.S. Geological Survey found that New York City, home to more than 8 million people,…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, said the basis of the telephone conversation between Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, and Bola Tinubu, president-elect, is unclear. In a series of tweets posted on Friday, Obi said the US should wait for the presidential election tribunal’s…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than seven years has been freed and has returned to Australia. Ken Elliott was safe and well and was reunited with his wife and their children on Thursday night, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said. “I’m very pleased to…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A senior officer of the Nigerian Army recently received more than one-quarter of a billion naira from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). DAILY POST exclusively obtained a copy of the two-page letter written to the Army authority and the screenshot of the N270,000,000 credit alert enclosed as evidence. Colonel MS (surname…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tanko Yunusa, the chief spokesperson of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has said that the Federal High Court judgement nullifying the candidature of Alex Otti, the Governor-elect of Abia State, will not stand. Yunusa, speaking exclusively to DAILY POST on Friday, explained that the court lacks jurisdiction to…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal high court in Kano has nullified the candidature of Alex Otti, governor-elect of Abia, and other candidates of the Labour Party (LP) in Abia and Kano. Mohammed Yunusa, the presiding judge, ruled that the LP did not comply with provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act. The judge gave the ruling…
