LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has flayed the Nigeria Customs Service, Nigerian Ports Authority and the Nigerian Shippers’ Council for the congestion of the nation’s ports. Dangote slammed maritime sector stakeholders in his remarks at the third ‘Race to US$200bn In FX Repatriation’ Non-Oil Export Summit of the Central…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Tuesday gave an indication that it would consider the prayer of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party’s demand for a live broadcast of its proceedings. The tribunal presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani asked the parties in the ongoing petitions to settle and decide…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than seven people have been reported dead while several others hospitalised after drinking tea suspected to have been prepared with a local leaf popularly known as Zakami at a wedding in Kano. Zakami contains a psychoactive substance. The incident happened on Tuesday in Sheka area of Kumbotso Local Government Area…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Southwest People’s Democratic Party, PDP, chairman, Hon. Soji Adagunodo is dead. Adagunodo was once A Chairman of the PDP in Osun State, it was gathered, died on to the great beyond on Monday after a brief sickness in the United States of America. Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke while reaching…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Corruption has become an integral norm at Lagos ports and all efforts to curb the menace by authorities at various levels seem to have failed. Extortion and brutality of truckers have become a game played by both state and non-state actors along the port corridors. Investigations have so far revealed that no…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A potentially dangerous incident occurred at the Dutse office of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Jigawa State on Monday morning after some armed soldiers invaded the premises of the anti-narcotic agency in an attempt to free a soldier arrested for allegedly dealing in illicit drugs. The incident caused panic…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 300-level student of Petroleum and Gas Engineering at the Federal University, Otuoke (FUO) in Bayelsa State, has reportedly died from drug overdose. The 19-year-old deceased student, simply identified as Job Alawari Kei, allegedly took a drug known as Colorado (Colos). According to some students on campus, the drug known as Colos…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Writer E. Jean Carroll was awarded $5 million Tuesday by a Manhattan jury that found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her — while clearing him of her rape claim. Carroll, 79, held her head down as the verdict was read in Manhattan federal court — and nodded…
