LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National President of the National Union of Local Government Employees, Ibrahim Khaleel, said the state governments had come up with another means of taking money from the local governments’ accounts despite the financial guidelines issued by the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit to them not to tamper with local governments’ funds again….
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has obtained a court order to proscribe the Shiites’ organisation formally referred to as the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the proscription of the Shiites’ movement as protests by the Islamic organisation rock Abuja. Saturday PUNCH reports that Justice Nkeonye Maha…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A five-year-old girl, kidnapped by an acquaintance simply identified as Ahmed in their Akemfa 1 area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State residence on June 10, has been found in a hotel room in Kaduna, where she was left by the kidnapper after collecting N1 million ransom. Mrs Williams Koroye, the victim’s mother, who…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border even though lawmakers refused to provide funding. The conservative-majority court on a 5-4 vote with…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The seven-months pregnant secretary of Roman Catholic Church leader Pope Francis was reportedly found dead at her apartment in Rome, with the Vatican calling on police to investigate the matter. “Pope Francis had been informed of the death. We are all pained by this news,” said Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi. The…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has told Sports Extra in an exclusive interview that he is shifting to young Fortuna Düsseldorf II goalkeeper Maduka Okoye, as he looks to solve the goalkeeping crisis that has rocked his team since Carl Ikeme quit due to illness. Rohr’s number one at the just-concluded Africa…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)The north London outfit have confirmed the pair are safe after they were the victims of an attack by a gang of assailants on motorbikes Arsenal stars Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac are both safe after being attacked by would-be carjackers in London. Ozil was driving his black Mercedes G Class 4×4…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-French authorities said on Thursday that a suspiciously low-slung vehicle led Customs officers to seize a collector’s caches of 3,000 grenades and 56kg of munitions. A statement by Budget Minister Gerard Darmanin said the customs officers were on patrol on a road between Paris and the Belgian border near Chimay when they…
