LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Major in the Nigeria Army, Akeem Aderogba Oseni, has slammed a N2 billion suit against the Nigeria Army and the First City Monument Bank (FCMB) for allegedly freezing his bank account without a court order. The Army Officer, in the suit, filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, wants the…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twitter took the unprecedented step of removing three of President Trump’s tweets and locking his account for at least 12 hours following a day of chaos at the Capitol Building on Wednesday. Facebook also deleted a video posted by the president and blocked him from posting for 24 hours. The missives were sent after mayhem shut down Congressional proceedings…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Justice Ayo Salami panel has recommended the sack of Ibrahim Magu, a commissioner of police, as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), TheCable can report. The panel, which submitted its report to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, also asked the president to appoint a new EFCC…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Enugu housewife, Mrs Josephine Nchetaka Chukwujama Eze, has caused a stir by promptly returning approximately N14 million wrongly paid into her account despite the current crushing economic conditions in Nigeria. Though the action has attracted both cheers and jeers, the mother of three has been declared a heroine by her husband,…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump’s Twitch account is temporarily suspended from posting because of “hateful conduct,” Twitch said Monday. Trump’s Twitch account is another social platform for his campaign to distribute videos, including rebroadcasts of older events and rallies. One of the offending videos was a recording of the now-infamous rally where Trump said…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has told the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) that it “has no records of the exact amount of public funds stolen by a former military head of state, Sani Abacha and no records of the spending of about $5 billion recovered loot for the period between 1999 and…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in Abuja has ordered the forfeiture of a staggering N136m found in the account of an army general. A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered an interim forfeiture of $376,120 (estimated at about N136,155,440) allegedly linked to Major General Hakeem Otiki. The court gave the ruling on Wednesday after an…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man of exemplary conduct has made his country proud after returning millions mistakenly paid into his account. A Nigerian man, identified as Sunny Anderson has taken to his social media page to reveal how he returned a staggering 98 million Nigerian Naira which was mistakenly transferred to his bank account. Sunny…