LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Pan-Niger Delta Forum has rejected the planned annexation of land in states for cattle colonies by the Federal Government, stating that it would precipitate crisis and insecurity in the country. It condemned the initiative, insisting that the Niger Delta region would not allocate land for the venture. The forum in a…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Russian diplomat, Ednan Agaev, who once alleged that former president Goodluck Jonathan allegedly received $200 million in the controversial Malabu deal has reversed himself on the claim, stressing that the initial statement in which he indicted the former President was made under duress. Mr, Agaev, a middleman and defendant in…
LAGOS 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, will know the fate of money found in accounts linked to her on July 1, a Federal High Court in Lagos has ruled. The court on Thursday fixed judgement for July 1 in the suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking final forfeiture of…
LAGOS JUNE28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police on Wednesday arraigned a 25-year-old taxi driver, Kenneth Edet, in a Grade I Area Court in Mpape, Abuja, for allegedly kidnapping 10 children. The police charged Edet, who lives in Mpape, with one count of abduction. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Prosecution Counsel, Mr Edwin Ochayi, told…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWRANGERS)-A Brazilian air force officer travelling with President Jair Bolsonaro’s G20 team has been arrested after being caught with 39 kilograms of cocaine. The officer was detained in Seville, Spain, when the back-up plane travelling to Osaka made a stop-over, a statement released by the Brazilian defence ministry said. It said: “The…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, on Thursday, struck out an application filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and President Muhammadu Buhari, seeking a dismissal of the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM). PDM’s candidate, Aminchi Habu, and his party are challenging their exclusion from the February 23 presidential…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has asked the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, to stop misleading Nigerians, adding that senators earned N15m monthly and not N750,000 as claimed by Lawan. Lawan had on Tuesday said there was no such thing as “jumbo pay,” adding that…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, informed the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal, sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, that the figures being bandied by the APC in the Akwa Ibom North-west Senatorial district election, Senator Godswill Akpabio were fake. Akpabio, a petitioner who is challenging the victory of Senator…
