LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four members of the Labour Party Caucus in the House of Representatives have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The lawmakers are Chinedu Okere (Owerri municipal/owerri north/Owerri west constituency), Mathew Donatus (Kaura federal constituency of Kaduna), Akiba Bassey (Calabar municipal/Odukpani constituency), and Esosa Iyawe (Oredo federal constituency of Edo). Speaker…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The judge who presided over Hunter Biden’s federal tax case in Los Angeles rebuked President Biden on Tuesday for pardoning his son this week, saying he misrepresented the facts of his son’s criminal case when he announced the move. In a brief order, U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi also accused the president…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s oldest aviation company, Aero Contractors, has slashed its airfares to a minimum of N80,000 for local flights during Yuletide season. The airline’s managing director, Ado Sanusi, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos, on Tuesday, described the cut in the price of airfares as ‘pocket friendly’ saying it was aimed to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Shell companies in Nigeria are among more than 700 oil and gas entities taking part in the 13th edition of the Practical Nigerian Content forum in Yenagoa, where they restated their commitment to the development of Nigerian companies through contract awards and scaling up of expertise. The four-day conference with the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The kidnappers, who abducted three members of staff of Innoson Motors from his motorcycle showroom in Nnewi Town, Anambra State, may now be in a dilemma on what to do with the victims after Innoson boss, Chief Innocent Chukwuma, snubbed them over demand of N150m ransom for the release of the staff. …
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Osun State Fire Service on Monday said it had begun a probe into the fire incident which killed a Customs officer attached to the Oyo/Osun Command, Tijani Kabiru, his wife and four children in their house in Ede. The incident which occurred in Akankan Area of Ede in the early hours…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he would lift “emergency martial law” soon after the opposition-controlled parliament voted against it. “Just a moment ago, there was a demand from the National Assembly to lift the state of emergency, and we have withdrawn the military that was deployed for martial law operations,”…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Muhammad Lawal Shuaibu, a Presiding Judge at the Court of Appeal, Sokoto Division, on Monday urged anti-corruption agents to focus on larger figures involved in corrupt practices, rather than targeting “yahoo boys.” Justice Shuaibu made this call during the opening of the North West Zonal Attorney General’s Anti-Corruption Forum (AGAF), organized…