LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fire on Monday gutted a section of the chambers of a Justice of the Supreme Court, Mohammed Saulawa. Witnesses said it took the timely intervention of the court’s and the federal fire services to put out the fire suspected to have started in the chambers located on the third floor of the…
Lagos September 10th (newsrangers)-The Department of State Services, DSS has arrested and detained the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria in charge of Financial System Stability, Aisha Ahmad. According to NTA on its X, formerly Twitter handle, Ahmad was allegedly detained for fraudulent acquisition of shares in Polaris Bank, Titan Bank/Union Bank. The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Ocean surge has taken over some structures within the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) barracks at the Seme-border in the Badagry area of Lagos State. Daily Trust Saturday reports that one of the buildings has been submerged by flood, thus forcing some officers and their families out of their accommodations. Aside from the…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Christine Brown, a British national and a victim of internet fraud was on Monday, August 28, 2023 presented with the sum of $26,000USD by the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Brown expressed gratitude to the Commission for its efforts which she said, has brought some succour…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema’s coup against Gabon’s president Ali Bongo Ondimba is a spectacular act of betrayal. As well as being commander of the Republican Guard responsible for Bongo’s security, Nguema is the president’s own cousin. It is also the ninth such military power grab in central and west Africa since 2020,…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man identified as Prosper Obum Igboke, a pastor of a pentecostal church, has committed suicide in Nnewi, Anambra State. Sources said the man jumped down from a two storey building, where he died instantly after he was allegedly jilted by his lover. A relative of the deceased who spoke to reporters…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has given it’s nod to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike to deal with herders that are allowing their cows to graze in the city centre. It, however, raised concerns that the areas mapped out for the herders to graze…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The delegation of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) led by General Abdulsalami Abubakar has finally met with the coup plotters in Niger Republic and the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. However, discussions at the meeting were not made public as at press time. The meeting, yesterday, came about three weeks…