LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday granted the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, leave to serve the Director General, Department of State Services, Mr Yusuf Bichi, the order of the court admitting him to bail and directing his remand in the…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ambience of Alasia, a community in Ijanikin, Ojo area of Lagos, has become tense following the murder of a police inspector by suspected cult members. It was learnt that the policeman was attached to Zone 2 Command Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos. He was said to have been hacked to death by a…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-It was a rude shock to a notorious drug kingpin who specializes in sponsoring young Nigerians to traffick Class A drugs to Europe especially Italy, when operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, stormed his hotel room in Okota area of Lagos late on Friday 21st July when he was…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-On Wednesday 19 July, the trial of three Vietnamese and one Guinean national accused of trafficking 7.1 tonnes of pangolin scales and 850 kgs of ivory concluded in Nigeria with the conviction of the four accused. The judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria in Lagos sentenced the accused to six…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC has declared war on drug hawkers nationwide. Director General of NAFDC, Prof Christianah Adeyeye who made the declaration during a sensitisation workshop on Dangers of Drug Hawking and Ripening of Fruits with Carbide on Wednesday in Lagos decried the nefarious activities…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service, on Monday, said it intercepted 31 rifles and ammunition coming to Nigeria from the United States in the first two weeks of July. Addressing journalists at the Federal Operations Unit, Zone A Ikeja, Lagos, the acting Controller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, said the contrabands were seized at the…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit, PSFU, Ikoyi, Lagos, South West, Nigeria have arrested Professor Yusufu Ameh Obaje, 74, a former chaplain, Sanni Abimbola Olive, 39, a Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and charged them before the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos Island for allegedly obtaining the sum…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The $1.6 billion Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail project was conceived by the Federal Government as part of the plan to connect all 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to convey passengers and goods while easing traffic congestion on the highways, among others. When it was opened for…