LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo has asked the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to initiate a comprehensive investigation of his officers allegedly involved in criminal, unprofessional and unethical conducts in Lagos. The lawyer said his client, Miss Ekwejunor Oritsematosan, on whose behalf he is seeking…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States urged Nigerian authorities on Friday to investigate an air strike that Reuters reported killed dozens of cattle herders earlier this year and highlighted a pattern of deadly aerial assaults. Dozens of ethnic Fulani herders died in a Jan. 24 aerial bombing in the central state of Nasarawa, according to…
igeria cardets, Pilipines LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the protest embarked upon by cadets of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), in the Philippines, the agency on Saturday, said it will embark on a fact-finding mission to the Philippines to engage the school where its Cadets of the National Seafarers Development Program (NSDP) are…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ayorinde Owolabi, brother of the late hotelier, Olugbenga Owolabi, who was killed in August after coming to Nigeria to invest in hospitality business, has said the United States is involved in the case. Olugbenga was a US citizen, living in Maryland, US. He came to Nigeria and built a hotel in his…
LAGOS ,MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Sokoto State Police Command has commenced investigation over the lynching of female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel on allegation of making a social media post that blasphemed the holy prophet Muhammad. The Police in a statement signed by Sokoto State Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) ASP…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pastor Leke Adeboye has refused to apologise over the inciting and offensive comment he made against pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, The son of the Pastor Enoch Adeboye according to Sahara Reporters, was on Wednesday, April 6, made to face a three-man panel over his recent comment in which…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts is investigating the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for paying part of the N9bn it received as special intervention fund from the Federal Government on COVID-19 into personal accounts of some members of its staff. The committee had on Friday grilled the Director-General of…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Special Investigation Task Force set up by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Abubakar Adamu in continuation of ongoing investigation into the reported attack and attempted murder of the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has arrived Makurdi, the Benue State capital. A press statement signed by CP Frank Mba of Police…