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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…

http://ift.tt/2l3nXu0 LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Republic of China said it had arrested 3,339 fugitives who fled to Nigeria and 89 other countries to escape prosecution for corruption. This was revealed by the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Zhou Pingjian, who stated that 628 of the suspects were former officials from whom N468bn (9.36bn yuan)…

http://ift.tt/2gp3F9j LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Majority shareholder of maritime logistics company, Intels Nigeria Limited, Gabriele Volpi, apologised to the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigeria government over the crisis that led to termination of the company’s pilotage agreement. In an interview with ThisDay newspaper, Mr Volpi who co-founded Intels with former vice president, Atiku Abubakar,…