LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One-time Governor of Akwa Ibom State and immediate past Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has been dragged to court over alleged failure to pay for a crowd rented to boost his aborted presidential bid. Court papers sighted by News Express showed that the case was filed on August 8,…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Mexican drug cartel accused in the gruesome killings of nine women and children from an offshoot Mormon community must pay $1.5 billion to the families, a federal judge from North Dakota ruled. The family members of the victims filed a lawsuit accusing the Juarez cartel of carrying out the November 2019 attack in Mexico as…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federation of International Football (FIFA) has ordered the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to pay former Super Eagles Coach, Gernot Rohr, his compensation of $378,000 (about N157million) following the early termination of his contract. Rohr, 68, had his appointment terminated by the NFF in December 2021, following the poor performance of the…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two million people will start receiving about N20bn from June this year as basic cash transfers and conditional cash transfers under the National Cash Transfer Programme, the Federal Government has said. It was gathered that the Federal Government would pay the two million people N5,000 each under the basic cash transfer and…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Benson Anya of the Abia State High Court has ordered the federal government to pay the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the sum of N1 Billion over infringement of his fundamental rights. The court said the damages to be paid to Kanu were for the…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government has signed an agreement for the collection of what it called “Consolidated Informal Sector Transport Levy” designed to harmonise dues collected by government from commercial motorists at parks and garages. The agreement was signed between the state government, local government, various transport unions and some government agencies. According…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-There was chaos and unrest in Yaoundé, Cameroon recently after a man reportedly won 13 billion CFA Francs ($22 million) on 1xBet but wasn’t paid. It was gathered that the man played a bet with $350 (200,000 CFA Francs) and won the 13bn CFA Frans/22 million dollars, but, rather than pay him…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagosians will now pay between N37,825 and N210,175 for private and commercial vehicle number plates depending on the type, the Babajide Sanwo-Olu government has said. This was contained in a statement on Tuesday posted on the official Facebook page of the Lagos State Government. The new price regime was a sequel to…