LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Spain, Alhaji Yusuf Yaro Mamman, will chair the 2024 annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), slated for October. The 2024 Conference Planning Committee chairman, Danlami Nmodu, mni, announced this in a press statement issued by the Publicity Secretary of GOCOP, Sir Remmy Nweke. The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A groom and his family members have been abducted on their way to Kogi State for his wedding. A family member of the bride, Serah Ibrahim, who disclosed this on Tuesday, December 26, 2023, said the kidnappers demanded N250m ransom. “So my mum just told me that her cousin’s fiancé and all…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has insisted that electronic collation of results is illegal in Nigeria. The commission said this against the backdrop of expectations that the results of Saturday’s off-cycle governorship elections in Imo, Kogi, and Bayelsa states would be transmitted electronically. The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Rotimi…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two days after the United States Deputy Treasury Secretary, Wally Adeyemo visited Nigeria as part of U.S. efforts to strengthen economic ties between both countries and a day after President Bola Tinubu, presently in the U.S. for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), advised Nigerians in abroad to return home, the U.S….
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police detectives from the Ejigbo Division of the Lagos State Command have uncovered some houses, where a suspected dubious company known as Qnet, held hundreds of innocent Nigerians in captivity after obtaining millions of Naira under the guise of securing a foreign Dollars paying job abroad. P.M.EXPRESS investigation revealed that the houses…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amidst the ongoing internal wrangling in Labour Party (LP), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday published the names and particulars of candidates produced by the mainstream Barr. Julius Abure-led faction of the party while ignoring Lamidi Apapa-led National Working Committee. The Julius Abure and Lamidi Apapa factions of the party…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three state governors — from Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara in the north of the country — all belonging to the ruling party sued the federal government, seeking the suspension of the central bank’s plan that has caused a cash crisis and disrupted transactions in Africa’s largest economy. The governors appealed to the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has accused National Assembly members of stealing billions of naira in the name of constituency projects. The ICPC, in a report tagged “Constituency Projects Tracking Group”, tracked 424 projects from 2015-2018 constituency projects between June and August 2019 across the 12 states of…