LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Cross River State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Calabar in its final judgment has dismissed Prof. Sandy Onor’s petition against the electoral victory of Senator Bassey Otu as governor of the state. The tribunal upheld Otu’s election, saying the petitioner’s case lacked merit. The PDP petition in a Suit Number: EPT/CR/GOV/02/2023…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service has said that many officers are undergoing different disciplinary cases. The National Public Relations Officer of NSC, Abdullahi Maiwada, while featuring on a television programme on Wednesday, said that some officers of the service who were found with arms and ammunition inside the seaports in 2017 had been…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A soldier identified as Musa Adamu has alleged that he has been dismissed from the Nigerian Army for preaching about Jesus Christ while in service uniform on social media. It would be recalled that in July 2023, Adamu, a Lance Corporal with service number 13NA/70/6100 and attached to Amphibious Training School Personnel (ATSCalabar) unit in Calabar,…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed one Mr. Richard Gele, the Police Inspector caught in a viral video dignifying and justifying extortion of members of the public and official corruption which trended from the 25th of July, 2022. Force Public Relation Officer (FPPRO) CSP Olumuyia Adejobi who made this disclosure of the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) has revealed that it has integrated about seven hundred ex-military personnel, who had their limbs amputated and eventually dismissed from the service due to the Boko Haram insurgent. The NCPD, which revealed this on Thursday during its 2021 budget defence at the National Assembly,…
LAGOS AGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) who rejected $412,000 bribe, Assistant Comptroller General of Customs (ACG) Bashir Abubakar has been sacked for “negligence”, ElombahNews was informed. It could be recalled that ACG Abubakar in 2018 was well celebrated for rejecting a bribe of $412,000 from unscrupulous Tramadol drug smugglers. President Muhammadu Buhari…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ECOWAS Court of Justice, has ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay the salaries and allowances of 244 soldiers dismissed in 2016. A statement issued by the court on Friday said that the order was given in a Judgment issued by a panel of three justices of the court on…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The General Court Martial set up by the Nigerian army to try the former General Officer Commanding(GOC), Major-General Hakeem Otiki, has dismissed him from service. The GCM, headed by Lieutenant-General Lamidi Adeosun found the former GOC guilty on all the five counts charges filed against him. The former GOC was charged for…