LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Marvelrock Pharmaceuticals and Stores Limited, Mr Orakwe Celestine, for allegedly engaging in sales of illicit drugs on a popular e-commerce platform, Jiji.ng. Orakwe, a graduate of Business Administration, University of Abuja, registered the pharmaceutical…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Director with the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Alhaji Mohammadu Kudu Lawal, has been killed by gunmen who attacked the vehicle in which he was traveling in the Saminaka village of Lapai local government area of Niger state on Sunday night.Another staff of the FIRS whose name was not known was…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The headquarters of First Bank located in the Central Business District, Abuja, has been sealed off by the FCT High Court Enforcement Unit over failure to comply with a garnishee order. A garnishee order is one of the options open to a judgment creditor to enforce a judgment that has been made…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The recent surge in terror attacks in Abuja has sparked fresh security fears across the country’s main cities over the large number of undocumented foreigners who are mainly engaged as guards and other domestic hands. Residents and security experts say such foreigners could turn easy tools in the hands of terrorists. he…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many workers in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory stayed away from the Abuja city centre on Friday as threats of bandits attacks pervaded the nation’s seat of power. An unusually light traffic was noticed on highways inwards the city’s central area on Friday morning. On a good day, heavy gridlocks attend the Nyanya-AYA…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has struck out a suit by an aggrieved former deputy national chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Callistus Okafor, challenging the election of the party leadership. The judgement of the three-member panel read by Justice Biobele Abraham Georgewill, on Friday, held that the subject matter before…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal Ministry of Education has directed closure of Federal Government Colleges (FGCs) located in FCT and ordered immediate evacuation of students. It was gathered that the decision was as a result of rising insecurity and threat to the lives, security and wellbeing of the students therein. While some schools were asked to…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil marketers yesterday unilaterally raised the pump price of petrol from N165 per litre to N185 in disregard to the Federal Government approved pump price of N165 per litre. The hike which came a day after Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, said the current price was no longer realistic saw…