LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of peoples, were reported burnt to death to death at Saburi, Dei-Dei in Abuja Municipal Area Council AMAC of the Federal Capital Territory FCT on Thursday morning as a fuel tanker discharging its products exploded midway and went up in flames. Vehicles and motorcycles popularly known as okada were equally burnt…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the seizure of funds and assets that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, traced to a banker, Mr Aleshe Ayodeji, who allegedly deposited fake currencies worth over N20million, with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. EFCC alleged that Ayodeji, who was in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District in Niger state, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Musa on Saturday night narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by unknown gunmen in Minna the state capital. The suspected assailants were said to have trail the Senator who is seeking his second term into the red chamber in 2023…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two married men were arrested with a woman’s severed head in Abuja. Peter Ochigbo, 42, from Otukpo in Benue state, married to Rebecca Iche, and Samuel Bachu, 35, a married father-of-five, also from Otukpo in Benue state, were arrested this week by police in Abuja. When questioned, Peter Ochigbo said he was…
The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has set aside the judgment of Federal High Court Abuja, removing Godswill Akpabio as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District. A three-member panel of justices read by Justice Danlami Senchi on Monday held that Akpabio failed to file a proof…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama has ordered that the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, be remanded in prison custody, following his alleged disobedience to a valid court order. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice Chizoba Oji, found the EFCC…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRA politician, a banker, and another suspect who allegedly stole N1.4Billion from a bank through Internet hacking and cracking have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). According to a statement from EFCC, the Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Ismaila Yusuf…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission raided the offices of black market currency dealers in Abuja on Tuesday in a bid to halt the rapid fall of the naira. Naira plunged rapidly between Monday and Tuesday to more than 840 in Abuja a week after the the Central Bank of…