LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A video showing the convoy escorting the new Senate President, Godwill Akpabio after the day’s work is circulating on social media. In the video making rounds, several cars, which consists of V8s, Mercedes Benzes and motorcycle outriders were captured as part of the motorcade. Several security personnel were also part of the…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has suspended the trial of former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Oduah, over the alleged N7.9 billion fraud charges instituted against her by the Federal Government. Odua’s arraignment, slated for June 15, was suspended by Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo over alleged threat to his life…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security around the United States Embassy in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, has been beefed up following the shooting of an official of the embassy, last Thursday. Also, other embassies and foreign missions have upped their security level, while urging their citizens and officials to take their security more seriously. The staff, whose identity…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Zone 2 Command Onikan, Lagos, have arrested an alleged fake woman customs officer, Rakiya Musa for allegedly swindling unsuspecting members of the public. The Zonal Public Relations Officer (ZPRO), SP Hauwa Idris-Adamu, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Sunday. Idris-Adamu said that the Assistant Inspector General of Police…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal high court sitting in Abuja has ordered the extradition of Chukwuemeka Onyegbula to the United States of America to face trial over allegations of wire fraud and identity theft. Justice Inyang Ekwo made this order while delivering judgment on the application filed by the federal government. The court ordered that…
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Petrol stations in Lagos started witnessing queues few hours after President Bola Tinubu announced that “fuel subsidy is gone”. Daily Trust observed that NNPC stations in Ikeja, Alausa were crowded by motorists who rushed to buy the product. Many private stations were not selling as of the time of filing this report….
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, has again given another angle as to why Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, should not have been declared winner of the presidential election. The former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prince Kennedy Ahanotu, the Labour Party’s national youth leader, has said that the Apapa-led faction’s former members slept on the floor of the party’s Abuja office, but that they now stay in some of the city’s most opulent hotels. This information was revealed by Ahanotu in response to the uproar at the…
