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http://ift.tt/2gUvdUC LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A family member of the man that jumped into a lagoon in Lekki Lagos has reacted to the incident. The source told The Nation that the man left his Ondo State residence three days ago to attend a church programme at the Redemption Camp. He said the family was yet to…

http://ift.tt/2zFBYRV Trump LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRAGERS)-Mr Mathew Page, former United States intelligence community’s top expert on Nigeria has said that the U.S. and the United Kingdom are the biggest recipients of funds looted from Nigeria. Page, a senior policymaker at the White House, State Department, Defense Department for more than a decade, stated this on…

http://ift.tt/2xVN6gc LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have confirmed the identity of a 40-year-old man who jumped into the lagoon from the Lekki – Ikoyi link bridge in Lagos on Friday in an apparent suicide plunge. Lagos State Police Command spokesman, ASP Olarinde Famous – Cole, identified the man as Adekunle Oluseyi John from Ondo State….

http://ift.tt/2hTlIoc LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NERANGERS)-Key oil industry associations have begun moves for the removal of the Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources since his loyalty to his boss and the country can no longer be guaranteed. The Unions are: The National Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, the Petroleum Tanker…

http://ift.tt/2iqf25c LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has given the directive that all the 36 state capitals should be connected with rail in the ongoing railway projects. The minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, said on Thursday, October 19, at the meeting with the chairman Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Sen. Shehu Sani. The…

http://ift.tt/2yXroZt LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal, Kebbi Division, has sentenced a former Kebbi State Accountant-General, Mohammed Dakingari, to seventy years in prison for N1.6bn fraud. He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on each of the ten counts preferred against him. The appellate court upturned the judgment of a Kebbi State High Court…

http://ift.tt/2zpIDP9 Dasuki LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has sent out words to his family members, relatives, associates and prominent Nigerians who are his friends not to beg President Muhammadu Buhari over his ongoing trial. This revelation was made to our correspondent by a source close to Dasuki. Speaking on…

http://ift.tt/2xbFp1h Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWRANGERS)-Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who serving multiple life sentences in the United States for trying to bomb a plane has sued the U.S. Justice Department, Federal Bureau of Prisons and Attorney General Jeff Sessions for denying him free speech and religious rights. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, popularly known as the…