LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil Society Organisation (CSO), the Kwechiri Unity Forum, has filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Works, David Umahi, and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Olatunji Disu, alongside others, over Mary Habila’s death. Habila, a female nurse attached to Umahi, was brought dead to the David Umahi Federal University Teaching Hospital,…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRNAGERS)-A civil society organisation, Vanguard for Probity and Accountability, has alleged massive irregularities in the recently audited account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), challenging the company to come clean and shun frivolous lifestyle at the expense of the taxpaying masses. The group further alleged that the NNPCL Board has…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed the Chief Security Officer of the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Richard Timothy, and his 23-year-old son, Silas, at their residence in Igwuruta-Ali, near Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Timothy’s widow, Grace, who narrated the incident to journalists in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, said the attackers, numbering about five and dressed in…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party, on Wednesday, said the banning of some media houses from covering activities in the Presidential Villa was unjustified. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, had in a statement on Tuesday restricted the coverage of activities in the Villa to 13 media…
LAGOS FEBRUAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tony Iwelu, the Chief Security Officer of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi is dead. It is unclear how Iwelu died but sources close to the Minister said the DSS Officer died of electrocution at his hotel room in Kaduna. This comes hours after reports of the attack on Amaechi on the…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Coalition of observer groups and Civil Society Organisations, that monitored the Ekiti governorship elections on Saturday, have rejected the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Kayode Fayemi, as the winner of the polls. Fayemi was announced winner of the polls, after securing 197,459 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Prof….
