LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 35-year-old man who claims to be trading in foreign exchange has landed in police custody after duping his clients of about N500 million. The suspect, Abubakar Shehu Bappa, who has been in the fake forex business for over 10 years now, specialised in collecting huge amounts of naira from businessmen with…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 300-level student of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, (FUTA) identified as Olona Joseph Oluwapelumi, has committed suicide in his private lodge in the Aule area of Akure, the state capital. According to sources, the student who was from the Department of Industrial Design took his own life by hanging himself…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-In just about 40 days to the 2023 presidential election, a group: Democratic Leadership, DL, has said the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, will score 25 per cent in over 24 states should the election be conducted free and fair. This was as they described Peter Obi as the most democratic,…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The governorship candidate of the Accord Party in Rivers State, Dumo Lulu-Briggs, escaped assassination attempt on Saturday during a visit to Etche Local Government Area of the state. Lulu-Briggs and his team had gone to Etche LGA to ascertain reports of an attack on the Accord secretariat in the area when unidentified…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the lingering petrol scarcity in the country, a senior government official and marketers have dashed the hope of an early resolution of the problem by claiming that supply hitches may not end any time soon. The senior official in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, who spoke to Sunday PUNCH on condition…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-In the power sector, it’s still a blame game, as frequent grid failures and power outages have forced Nigerians to rely on generators to run their businesses, with disastrous financial consequences. But as Festus Akanbi points out, all eyes are on President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to fix the power sector as a…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has told the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, that his recent suspension of party members loyal to the G-5 Governors will not help the PDP in the forthcoming polls. The Governor particularly described the dissolution of the Ekiti State executive committee of…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A US air strike assisting government troops in Somalia has killed about 30 Islamist al-Shabab militants, the US military says. The operation happened near the town of Galcad, about 260km (162 miles) northeast of the capital Mogadishu. Over the past few days, the Somali army and al-Shabab militants have fought for control…
