http://ift.tt/2ilkjr4 LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Attempts by three Nigerians to smuggle about six kilograms prohibited drugs out of the country has been foiled by Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Special Area Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. A statement made available to NewsRangers signed by Jonah Achema, ACN , NDLEA Principal Staff Officer, Public Affairs…
http://ift.tt/2A7pu62 LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Posters alleging that a former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, is set for the 2019 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have surfaced in Abuja. The posters were largely seen along the ever busy Airport Road. They bore the inscription: “Vote Orji Kalu for…
http://ift.tt/2z4Bwz3 LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A pot dealer was accidentally killed by his own bodyguard, who opened fire during a botched drug deal in Washington Heights, police said. The friendly fire happened as victim Jose Nunez, 43, and a buddy, Alex Siraj, 31, were meeting two prospective customers at a parking garage on Wadsworth Ave. near…
http://ift.tt/2z6dulb LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Road Safety Corps Celebrity Marshals Unit has released a list of top media and entertainment personalities to be inducted as new members in 2017. This was contained in a press release by the Coordinator of the Unit, Chris Kehinde Nwandu, in Abuja. Some of the new celebrity marshals include…
http://ift.tt/2iS9G2P Dasuki LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki has appeared in the trial of former PDP spokesman, Olisa Metuh before a Federal High Court in Abuja. However, Dasuki’s counsel, Ahmed Raji (SAN) has opposed his testifying today due to loss of memory following his two years of incarceration. He said the…
http://ift.tt/2zos6z5 Deziani LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday rejected an application by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, seeking to be joined as a defendant in an alleged N450m fraud case in Nigeria. Justice Rilwan Aikawa, while rejecting the application, described it as bizarre and a misuse…
http://ift.tt/2iPKqdv Dasuki LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services has finally produced the detained former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in compliance with an order of the Federal High Court in Abuja, that the ex-NSA should appear as a witness in the ongoing trial of a former Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party,…
http://ift.tt/2z4IPo6 LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Fire yesterday gutted an Access bank Automated Teller Machine (ATM) gallery located at Ikotun a suburb of Lagos state. The fire, which was said to have started around 3:30pm, affected six ATM machines. An eye witness told NewsRangers that the inferno was probably caused by heat that emanated from the battery…