LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has pleaded leniency for former Deputy Senate Ike Ekweremadu who was found guilty of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice with a doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has warned that those pushing for subsidy removal in Nigeria are out to set the country on fire. The warning came against the backdrop of an announcement that the outgoing government of President Muhammadu Buhari had left the decision of petrol subsidy removal to the incoming government….
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Port Harcourt-bound Aero Contractors aircraft, on Wednesday morning, developed fault mid-air and had to return to Abuja for emergency landing. A passenger on the plane exclusively told LEADERSHIP that the aircraft took off at about 8:40am but few minutes into the flight, the pilot announced he had to return back to…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) is in trouble after allegedly collecting princely sums as bribes from an out-going governor. The said REC, it was learnt, was taking orders from the governor contrary to his oath of office. The governor attempted to smuggle in the ballot papers he printed for the March 18 governorship…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has secured $800 million from the World Bank to scale up its national social program ahead of the removal of its costly but popular subsidies on petrol in June, Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said on Wednesday. Africa’s biggest economy set aside 3.36 trillion naira ($7.3 billion) this year to spend on…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The journalist who published the alleged phone conversation between the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the General Overseer of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, has been suspended. Peoples Gazette suspended Ayoola Babalola on Tuesday for online behavior that violated the newspaper’s social media policy and called…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has chastised the Federal Government over the treason charge leveled against Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi. WITHIN NIGERIA reported that the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had warned Peter Obi against inciting Nigerians to violence over the outcome of the presidential election….
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lawmakers from different political parties in the minority caucus on Tuesday met to pull an upset against the All Progressives Congress (APC). The lawmakers converged at Transcorp Hilton in Abuja and deliberated on ways to pull their numbers together to decide the next Speaker of the House. Elected lawmakers from the Peoples…
