LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate yesterday quizzed the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Idris Ahmed, over the identity of a lawyer who collected $4 million as payment for the professional fees for the management of Excess Crude Account (ECA). Chairman of Senate Committee on Finance, Adeola Olamilekan, who demanded the identity of the lawyer during…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A corps member has died hours after complaining of stomach pain. Idemudia Jude, a Batch C Stream A corps member serving in Sokoto state, complained of stomach pain on Monday night, March 9. He was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after. The deceased was a Food Technology graduate of the…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A PTA meeting turned sour on Monday as teachers and parents of Ogbogbo Baptist Grammar School, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State engaged in a series of fight. Reports had it that a parent cursed, insulted and personally called out a Yoruba teacher identified as Mrs Abosede who was fond of insulting students and…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kaduna State Government has announced the appointment of Muhammadu Sanusi II, who was deposed as emir of Kano on Monday, into the board of KADIPA, its investment promotion agency. A statement from Sir Kashim Ibrahim House said Governor Nasir El-Rufai approved the reconstitution of the board of KADIPA. Established in 2015,…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) met Tuesday at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja without Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the suspended National Chairman. The meeting, which was held to prepare for the party’s March 17, 2020 emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, was presided over by…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A famous Human Rights Lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN has reacted to the removal of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the Emir of Kano and his banishment from the state. In a statement made available to TheNigeriaLawyer (TNL), the learned silk says both the dethronement and the banishment are illegal. Falana says “Yesterday,…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As precautionary measure to check the spread of Coronavirus, Turkish Airlines has announced the cancellation of all its flights to its destinations in Nigeria as it also cut back its operations to other international destinations. The airline, which brought in the index coronavirus case, the Italian to Nigeria in a statement, said…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Usman, has denied having a romantic relationship with the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, saying no such affair helped her clinch the NPA top job. Ms Usman, chief of staff to Mr El-Rufai from 2015 to 2016, spoke on the subject while appearing…
