LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ilorin High Court has ordered a retired navy chief, Vice- Admiral Samuel Olajide Afolayan, to pay N9 million being the cost of damages and for detaining 42 cows belonging to a Fulani herdsman, Alhaji Abubakar Abdullahi, illegally and unconstitutionally. The verdict, delivered on January 9, 2018, indicated that the retired admiral…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, first child of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has blasted apologists of the Muhammadu Buhari administration for recycling an old and settled issue with her father in defence of the former president’s stinging rebuke of the incumbent administration In a strongly worded statement issued to our reporter from her Virginia,…
LAGOS JNAURY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s finance minister plans to drag tax defaulters who don’t make use of an amnesty to court as she seeks funds to plug the nation’s $25 billion infrastructure gap. In the nine months of reprieve ending March, some penitent taxpayers have said “you got me” and cleared arrears without paying interest and…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ojo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on Friday arraigned a 78 year old man, Joeseph Adetunji, for allegedly bathing his son’s face with acid. Adetunji who was remanded with his son-in-law, Abayomi Balogun, 60, is facing trial for conspiracy and assault for causing grievous harm. The Prosecutor, Police Insp. Uche Simeon, told the…
LAGOS JANUARY 27T (NEWSRANGERS)-Police at the Rumuokoro Divisional Police Station in Rivers state are investigating a mob action by some individuals against a suspect who was alleged to have transformed a man into a goat. DAILY POST gathered the unnamed thirty-six year old man was accused of transforming a human to a black goat around…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso has declared that no one can stop him from traveling to his home state. He said he will go there peacefully to see his constituents. The Kano Command of the police had warned Kwankwaso, who is now a serving senator, against visiting Kano. The…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of the Yenagoa and it’s environs have continued to groan under a continued black out and power outage that has lasted over ten days. More worrisome to residents is the decision of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) to keep mum over the continued black out. Some…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Commissioner for Youth Development, Chief Collins Cocodia, has affirmed that the state government is collaborating with the African Tide Union (ATU) , an organization based in Germany for the empowerment of the youths by involving them in different training programme. Cocodia who said no fewer than five thousand youths have…
