http://ift.tt/2yXroZt LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal, Kebbi Division, has sentenced a former Kebbi State Accountant-General, Mohammed Dakingari, to seventy years in prison for N1.6bn fraud. He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on each of the ten counts preferred against him. The appellate court upturned the judgment of a Kebbi State High Court…
http://ift.tt/2gr8ijh on LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet-to-be identified man on Friday afternoon jumped into the Lagos lagoon from the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge. The suicide mission has forced officials of the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Marine Police and other stakeholders to the scene to search for the man. Details…
http://ift.tt/2xbs9cY LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Crisis has broken out in the All Progressives Congress (APC), with 17 governors plotting to dump National Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun. The governors are said to be angry that Oyegun has been running the party with only seven of their colleagues. They may table their grievances at the party’s National Executive Committee…
http://ift.tt/2xaYmB4 LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When passengers on board a LAGBUS vehicle en route to Oshodi, Lagos State, left the Sango end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, little did they know that their journey would be cut short by bandits. At the toll gate area, some metres away from the vehicle’s take-off point, some hoodlums stopped the…
http://ift.tt/2gp3F9j LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Majority shareholder of maritime logistics company, Intels Nigeria Limited, Gabriele Volpi, apologised to the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigeria government over the crisis that led to termination of the company’s pilotage agreement. In an interview with ThisDay newspaper, Mr Volpi who co-founded Intels with former vice president, Atiku Abubakar,…
http://ift.tt/2l3nXu0 LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Republic of China said it had arrested 3,339 fugitives who fled to Nigeria and 89 other countries to escape prosecution for corruption. This was revealed by the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Zhou Pingjian, who stated that 628 of the suspects were former officials from whom N468bn (9.36bn yuan)…
http://ift.tt/2xbFp1h Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWRANGERS)-Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who serving multiple life sentences in the United States for trying to bomb a plane has sued the U.S. Justice Department, Federal Bureau of Prisons and Attorney General Jeff Sessions for denying him free speech and religious rights. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, popularly known as the…
http://ift.tt/2zpIDP9 Dasuki LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has sent out words to his family members, relatives, associates and prominent Nigerians who are his friends not to beg President Muhammadu Buhari over his ongoing trial. This revelation was made to our correspondent by a source close to Dasuki. Speaking on…