LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate Committee on Public petition, Ethics and Privileges has issued a warrant of arrest on the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Chairman of the Committee, Senator Ayo Akinyelure issued the order following the management’s failure to honour the invitation of the Senate panel to account for how the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely four and half months after the official launch and roll-out of the Federal Government’s National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP), the programme has been dogged by allegations of fraud and corruption against electricity distribution companies (Discos) saddled with the task of installing the meters. It would be recalled that the Federal Government…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has set up a four-man committee to review the report of the Justice Ayo Salami-led judicial panel of enquiry into the tenure of the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu. The committee, according to TheCable, will produce the White Paper on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than sixty-six Nigerians are spending various terms in prisons in Bangladsh for fraud, a report by Dhaka Tribune said. The report further said that Nigerians make up majority of the 86 Africans jailed across the country. The other 20 prisoners are from Cameroon, Tanzania, Ghana, Algeria, Mali and Kenya. There…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A well-known Christian preacher has skipped bail in South Africa and fled the country. Shepherd Bushiri, who had previously said he wanted to clear his name, has now returned to his home country, Malawi, with his wife Mary. Earlier this month they were released on bail after being charged with fraud and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group clamouring for the enthronement of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in the next political dispensation, under the platform of South East for President 2023 (SEFORP2023) has been dragged to an Enugu High Court for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting Nigerians. In an originating summon document made available to newsmen in Enugu…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a Prophetess of the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), Oluwakemi Sotonode, for allegedly fraudulently obtaining millions from many people. The suspect also known as Marvelous, was arrested at her hideout on Tuesday, October 6, by operatives attached to the Public Complaint Bureau unit following series of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Muniru Olagunju of the Oyo State High Court has sentenced Oreoluwa Adesakin, an ex-staff of a tier-one bank, to cumulative 98 years in prison for fraud. Adesakin, female, was found to have committed financial fraud against her employers to the tune of N49,320,652.32 and additional $368,203 belonging to the bank which…