By Emmanuel Udom LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, has identified top five flashpoints where touts, who disguise as local government and local council development workers do intimidate, coarse and extort money, daily from motorists in Lagos state. Comrade Enitan Joseph chairman and Comrade Abdulhakeem Adesina, secretary, respectively of organisation said that recently, CLO…
By Emmanuel Udom LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected Area Boy allegedly stabbed a female trader and POS operator at Ifo market in Ogun state to death for refusing to give him money for sallah celebration. NewsRangers learnt that the area boy (name withheld) approached the lady at her shop located in front of the market, opposite…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some dubious Nigerians have devised a new way to obtain money from their colleagues and acquaintances by pretense. One such tactic involves claiming, “I’m having trouble with my bank network. Can you help me transfer N40,000 to Bright (not a real name)?” Though not a new trend, this tactic has gained momentum…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Director of Corporate Banking at First Bank of Nigeria, Adetunji Fadahunsi-Jones, has been arraigned for an alleged bribery offence in the United Kingdom. Adetunji’s arraignment came after a National Crime Agency investigation. Adetunji, 45, of Hertfordshire, oversaw the bank’s contact with a significant businessman in Nigeria’s oil, gas and petroleum…
LAGOS FEBRUAYRY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The act of man’s inhumanity to man was brought to limelight on Monday by the Force Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police, Muyiwa Adejobi, who narrated how a woman Police Inspector of a division in the Lagos State Police Command was detained for demanding money from a relative of a suspect…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has assured Nigerians that the issue of animals swallowing millions of naira will never happen under his administration if he is elected president. He shared this on Friday, January 27 while addressing students of the University of Abuja during a town hall…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-“If they give you money, collect it and vote against them because it is your money. Tell them you want to follow those who know the road, that you are tired of being in the wilderness,” Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has for the umpteenth time, admonished Nigerian…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to reports,one Emmanuel Ayegbusi,26 years of age,a banker working at an old generation bank, was allegedly arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court by the bank’s authorities after being found accountable for transferring N2,200,000 without legal procedures from his boss’s account. The defendant was dragged to court for dubiously taking the money…