Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mr Mike Mbama Okiro has implored Inspector General of Police of Nigeria (IGP) Mr Alkali Baba to to diligently investigate and decisively deal with security operatives who watch aimlessly while election violence is being committed in their presence by hired gunmen, political thugs and sundry election miscreants and offenders. …
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Allegations of six-figure bribes, shady middlemen and fabricated evidence featured in the $11 billion UK trial ending this week that could cost Nigeria a third of its foreign reserves. Africa’s biggest economy wants the UK High Court to strike down the massive arbitration award in favor of hedge fund-backed Process & Industrial…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hadi Sirika, the minister of aviation, on Thursday, revealed that personnel of the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) have been instructed “to move quickly” to probe the fatal rail accident that happened in Lagos on Monday. POLITICS NIGERIA had reported how two people died and several others were seriously injured when a…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Personnel of the 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, yesterday, recovered 1,671 Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, in an apartment in the Olodi-Apapa area of Lagos State. Three persons were subsequently arrested in the apartment, while the prime suspect was said to be on the run. Also recovered in the apartment were ballot…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chatham House, an independent policy institute based in London, has stated in an analysis by one of its fellows that the February 25 presidential election showed that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC failed to learn new lessons. The London-based institute stressed that the electoral umpire failed to adhere to its own…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has insisted that the presidential election held on February 25 was won by the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, and not the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. It, therefore, said that the decision of Obi to challenge the results…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 37-year-old man, identified as Artur B., hacked his 100-year-old grandmother, Amalie G., to death using an axe. The incident happened on Monday in Hamburg, Germany, according to a Daily Mail report on Wednesday. Chief Public Prosecutor Liddy Oechtering told a local news platform, “According to the preliminary autopsy result, it can…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anything that would reduce Lagos from being a city open to everybody, detracts from its Centre of Excellence status and therefore unacceptable, Babjide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of the state, said on Wednesday. A guest of The Morning Show, a breakfast programme on Arise Television, Sanwo-Olu, who condemned the attack on certain residents in the…
