LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, on Wednesday asked a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere to quash the two separate charges filed against him by the Lagos State Government. The Lagos State Government had brought a fresh five-count charge bordering on conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping and attempted murder…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The trailer park currently under construction in Apapa, Lagos State is 95 per cent completed and will soon serve as the holding bay to 340 trucks when it becomes operational. The engineer supervising the project, Osarieme Osakue, who disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday, said it would help in tackling traffic gridlocks…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives on Wednesday summoned the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, and her Health counterpart, Prof. Isaac Adewole, over the deduction of N10bn from the Treasury Single Account of the National Health Insurance Scheme. Also summoned were the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele; the…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has sued a United States university, accusing it of mishandling scholarship students’ access to funds meant for rent, books and food. The government has joined dozens of Nigerian students in a lawsuit against Alabama State University, which dates back to 2016. It also accused the university, which has been…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s security forces have been ordered to defend all schools in “liberated areas” of the country’s northeast to avoid further mass abductions from schools by Boko Haram extremists, the president’s office announced Wednesday. Many in Africa’s most populous country have been outraged by the kidnapping of 110 girls in a Feb. 19…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Faculty members at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, have voted by a large majority that the school should annul the honorary degree awarded Donald Trump in 1988. Almost 83 percent of faculty members who participated in this week’s ballot approved the motion calling on the school’s board of trustees to rescind Trump’s…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the bill seeking to establish the Nigeria Peace Corps. The president said the functions of the corps as contained in the bill were duplication of existing security agencies. Both chambers of the National Assembly had months ago passed the bill and transmitted it to the President for…
By Amos Okioma,Yenagoa. LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal government of Nigeria and International Oil Companies operating in the Niger Delta Region has been called upon to urgently address the glaring neglect and underdevelopment as the only panacea in the region.This was contained in a press release by Wanama Onya and made available to Authority in…
